Note 152 — TWO YEARS' RESIDENCE, &c. &c. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Golconda is a small town on Lusk Creek, about eight miles above the mouth of the Ohio.
America, a few miles farther up the Ohio, was laid out (1818) by a land company. Its situation back from the river proved to be a disadvantage instead of an advantage. In 1821 the Ohio was unusually low and boats could not land near the settlement; this, together with an epidemic of cholera which occurred the same year, dealt a death blow to the prospects of the place.
For Edwardsville, see Flint's Letters, volume ix of our series, note 92.—Ed.