The 7th herborised and visited the neighborhood of Kaskia.
The 8th started to return to Kaskaskia and arrived there on the 9th.
The 10th continued herborising in the vicinity of Kaskaskia Village until the 13th of the same month.
Sunday the 13th of September crossed over with a savage guide to the south bank of the Kaskaskia River and continued to herborise there until the 18th of the same month.
The 18th and 19th Rained continually. Put my Collections in order and gave my horse a rest.
Sunday the 20th . . .
Kaskaskia 45 families; Prairie du Rocher from 22 to 24 families. St. Philippe 3 American families. Fort de Chartres in ruins.[136] Kaskias 120 families. Americans at Corne de Cerf and at Bellefontaine[137] 35 families. St Louis flourishing[138] . . . Prairies and hills.
- [Footnote: accession of renegade coureurs des bois. See Wisconsin Historical Collections
(Madison, 1902), xvi, pp. 331, 332. After the English acquired the Illinois, many inhabitants migrated from Cahokia to St. Louis.—Ed.]*
