Note 44 — {148} CHAPTER II {X}[33] Hot Springs of the Washita—Granite of the Cove—Saline River
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Ouachita River pursues an easterly course until it enters Hot Springs County; then it turns sharply to the south-west, changing direction again on leaving the county, and flowing south-south-east until it enters Louisiana.
Fourche-au-Cadeau (now contracted to Caddo Creek) heads in Montgomery County, and flowing south-east meets the Ouachita on the northern line of Clark County. Cadeau is a corruption of Cadaux. Both words are French, the former meaning a gift, the latter being the plural of the name of an Indian tribe (Caddo in English) whose range included southwestern Arkansas. The stream is called Fourche des Cadaux (Fork of the Caddos) in Dunbar and Hunter's "Description of the Washita River" (American State Papers, "Indian Affairs," i, p. 731).
At the south-east corner of Clark County is the mouth of the Little Missouri, which rises on the Polk-Montgomery county line, traverses Pike, and forms the southern line of Clark.—Ed.