Note 144 — TWO YEARS' RESIDENCE, &c. &c. (continued 2)

Woods appears to have obtained his information from Cumings's Western Pilot, which, in turn, was taken from Patrick Kennedy's Journal, written in 1773 (see Flint's Letters, volume ix of our series, note 101). All these rivers are branches of the Illinois. Migne is Crooked Creek, which empties into it from the northwest; about fifteen miles farther up, Sangamon River discharges into it from the southeast; Demi Quain is Spoon River, a considerable stream one hundred and fifty miles in length, flowing southward into the Illinois, about thirty miles above the mouth of the Sangamon; Seseme Quain is probably Copperas Creek, a few miles farther up; Plein and Theakiki are the Des Plaines and Kankakee branches respectively.—Ed.