CHAPTER VI

Leave St. Louis--Indian mounds--remains of ancient fortifications--burial caverns--mummies--Flint's description of a mummy--the languages of America--town making--the Indian summer--population, &c. of Illinois--the prairie hen--the Turkey buzzard--settlers--forest in autumn--a gouging scrape--the country--extent and population of Indiana--hogs--a settler in bottom land--the sugar maple--roads--a baptism