The _Coleur de Rose_--The Piasa--The Indian Legend--Caverns--
Human Remains--The Illinois--Characteristic Features--The
Canal--The Banks and Bottoms--Poisonous Exhalations--Scenes on
the Illinois--The "Military Bounty Tract"--_Cape au Gris_--Old
French Village--River Villages--Pekin--"An Unco Sight"--Genius
of the Bacchanal--A "Monkey Show"--Nomenclature of Towns--The
Indian Names 122
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An Emigrant Farmer--An Enthusiast--Peoria--The Old Village and
the New--Early History--Exile of the French--Fort Clarke--Indian
Hostilities--The Modern Village--Site--Advantages--Prospects--
Lake _Pinatahwee_--Fish--The Bluffs and Prairie--A Military
Spectacle--The "Helen Mar"--Horrors of Steam!--A Bivouac--The
Dragoon Corps--Military {xii} Courtesy--"Starved Rock"--The
Legend--Remains--Shells--Intrenchments--Music--The Moonlight
Serenade--A Reminiscence 132