Note 7 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE

Gen. George Rogers Clark, an early and careful observer, scouted the idea advanced by Noah Webster, in Carey’s American Museum, in 1789, that these extraordinary Western military defenses were the work of De Soto. “As for his being the author of these fortifications,” says Clark, “it is quite out of the question; they are more numerous than he had men, and many of them would have required fifty thousand men for their occupancy.”––L. C. D.