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376 The Filson Club History Quarterly [ Vol. 6 WN otr p/e t¢$ A " INOIA# 01. l 'l Lo.¢ #" RR Co #it /. ./3,/-,,,,.k.. J,/.,-,,,,, - • • . , , . , _4. ., . This is the William D. Hixon map of 1886. Judged by its items still discernible it is a good one, and creates a presumption of accuracy as to the remainder of its items. It is the only m p known to the author which attempts areeonstruetion of Eskippakithiki. The name following "8" should read "Beasly's."
Voh 6] The Filson Club History Quarterly 377 in the Year 1770 I Incamped on Red River with five other men and we had for our amusement the History of Samuel Gulivers Travels wherein he gives an account of his young Mistress Glumdeclik earriing him on a Market Day for a show to a town called Lulbergrud a young man of our Company Called Alexander Neely came to Camp one Night and told us he had been that Day to Lulbergrud and had killed two Brobdernags in their Capital. there was no place in this County went by that name of the log Lick until the year 1795 when William and Major Beezley Cut a number of Trees Down in and about this Lick we are now at in order to ketch Buffalows and from that time some people called this the Log Lick," etc. From this it is seen that Lulbegrud is a corruption of Lorbrulgrud, the capital of Brobdinag, the land of giants, which, according to Dean Swift, Gulliver discovered on the northwest coast of America. The present Oil Springs was the "capital" and the buffalos lingering around them, the "Brobdernags."l, WHAT THE SETTLERS FOUND AT INDIAN OLD FIELDS: A large part of the Indian Old Fields was patented by a company from Berkeley County, Virginia, composed of General Marquis Calmes, and son, Marquis, Jr., Edward Berry, and Ben and Cuthbert Combs. The two Combs were brothers, and their mother was a sister of Colonel Thomas Bullitt, the pioneer of Louisville. William Risk, an intelligent settler, some sixty years later, gave Rev. John D. Shane the following description: "I heard one of the partners, Gen. Calmes, say the Old Fields were all covered with bluegrass when he first saw it [in 1775]. And when I first saw it, it was very high with grass, as high, some, as a horse's back, and with a head to it.... There were sprouts of white hiccory, and cherry tree, and black locust, and black walnut, all through the Old Field . . . There were stumps, some off as high as a chair back, and around these stumps were trees, some of them would make five rail cuts.... Suppose some of the trees had been cut down to put up a white oak pole cabin that was . . . there and looked old when the partners were taking up the land.... It was known as the cabin on the white oak point. It is now on Leonard Beall's land, joining to Mrs. Goff's down on Howard's creek. The cabin was hardly one-half mile from the gate posts.... Ben Combs said he did not know who made it. • . . The posts were two, of black walnut, about as far apart as a
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