Delay--"A Horse!"--Early French Immigration in the West--The
Villages of the Wilderness--St. Louis--Venerable Aspect--Site
of the City--A French Village City--South St. Louis--The Old
Chateaux--The Founding of the City--The Footprints in the Rock--
The First House--Name of City--Decease of the Founders--Early
Annals--Administration of St. Ange--The Common Field--Cession
and Recession--"_L'Annee du Grand Coup_"--"_L'Annee des Grandes
Eaux_"--Keel-boat Commerce--The Robbers Culbert and Magilbray--
"_L'Annee des Bateaux_"--The First Steamboat at St. Louis--
Wonder of the Indians--Opposition to Improvement--Plan of St.
Louis--A View--Spanish Fortifications--The Ancient Mounds--
Position--Number--Magnitude--Outlines--Arrangement--Character--
Neglect--Moral Interest--Origin--The Argument of Analogy 142