boats, 93, 94.

_Kentucky Gazette_, 189.

Kickapoo Indians, 110.

Kidnapping of negroes, 186.

King's proclamation, 1763, 10.

Knox county, 75 n., 86.

Kohos (Cahokia), mention, 27.

L

La Balme, _Col._ Augustin Mottin de, career of, 33 _et seq._

Labor questions, 96, 97, 99, 130, 169.

Lafayette, _Marquis_ de, entertained by John Edgar, 193;
mention, 209.

Lake Michigan, advantages to Illinois of port on, 115, 116.

Land, Act of 1791, 72; canal, 141, 142;
cessions by Indian tribes, 72, 104, 110, 136;
cession by Virginia to U. S., 45, 46;
church and school, 141, 142;
classified for taxation, 84;
cultivation of, 166;
fertility of, 14, 165;
form of holdings, 13, 38;
French deeds to, 13;
government entry of, 130;
Kickapoo cession of, 1819, 134;
military, 100;
owned by Federal Government, 158;
prices, 57, 80, 88, 92, 103-5, 136-8, 143;
rental of, 166;
Spanish donate to French, 55;
tavern sites, 75;
taxes on, 130;
unoccupied in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, 98.
_See also_ Public lands.

Land-claims, 10;
in Illinois, 140.

Land-companies, 10, 11.

Land-frauds, referred to Congress, 99, 100.

Land-grants, investigated, 57.

Land-holders, non-resident, mention, 140, 145.

Land-offices 80;
in Illinois, 44 _et seq._, 103.

Land-titles, insecure, 51, 71;
King's proclamation, 1763, 10.

Laws: "Black Laws," 176, 186;
"Blue Laws," 200;
territorial, 111-14.

La Valiniere, Pierre Huet de, mention, 68.

Lead, output of, 1823-1827, 151.

Lead region, rush to, 1826, 172.

Le Dru, removes to St. Louis, 68;
signs petition, 66.

Le Grand, signature on land grant, 45.

Legras, _Col._ P., at Vincennes, 18.

Limestone beds at Alton, 204.

Lincoln, Abraham, in Black Hawk War, 207.

Linctot, 38 n., 39 n.

Live-stock, 27, 83, 169. _See also_ Cattle.

Log canoes, 93.

Log houses, cost of, 168.

Long Prairie, 74.

Louis XVIII. of France, mention, 209.

Louisiana, emigration to, 86;
province of, 91.

_Louisiana Gazette_, report of steamboat speed, 162.

Luzerne, _Chevalier_, 30, 36.

Lyon, Matthew, on price of lands, 88.

M

McCarty, Richard, 19, 20, 26, 27;
killed, 29.

McDowell, William, 196.

McIlvaine, _Miss_ Caroline M., 5.

McKendree College, opened by Methodists in 1828, 174.

McLean, John, 145.

McMaster, John Bach, 5.

Madison, _Governor of Kentucky_, 197.

Madison, James, mention, 209.

Madison, John,