Note 115 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 3)

For a brief biography of General Arthur St. Clair, see F. A. Michaux’s Travels, volume iii of our series, note 33. Evans would seem to imply that the lake and river were named for this officer. The name was assigned by La Salle’s expedition in 1679. See Hennepin, A New Discovery (Thwaites’s ed., Chicago, 1903), pp. 59, 108.—Ed.