Note post, note 181 — Chapter IX
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[181] William Darby, a Pennsylvania geographer (1775–1854), was one of the surveyors who ran the boundary between the United States and Canada. He published an emigrant’s guide and several gazetteers.
“The Masserne chain ... rises in detached masses, between Red and Arkansaw rivers. This range has not been carefully examined by men of science; of course its component parts are not correctly known. It is supposed to be rich in minerals.”—Darby, Emigrant’s Guide (New York, 1818), p. 50.
“Masserne, from Mt. Cerne, one of its peaks ... The provincial vulgarism Ozark, the hunter’s name for Arkansas, has been given to the Massernes, by some writers and map makers.”—Darby and Dwight, New Gazetteer (Hartford, 1833), p. 293.—Ed.