Logan^ Cresap, and Rogers. 157 



I now proceed to make some remarks on the more 

 pm^ely historical part of this subject. 



In Mr. Jefferson's Notes, the Indian chief, whose 

 name is consecrated to a kind of immortahty, is called 

 Logan. By the Abbe Robin he is called Lonan. 

 Thus the name occurs Jour different times in the same 

 page of the Abbe's work. 



But this difference is not, perhaps, of much conse- 

 quence in our view of the subject. It is possible, that 

 the same chief may, among different persons, have been 

 called both Logan and Lonan. I think instances of this 

 nature are not uncommon among the Indians. It is 

 probable, that in the edition of the speech which the 

 Williamsburg professor gave the Abbe, the name was 

 Lonan : or, admitting that it was Logan, it was easy for 

 a Frenchman to change it into Lonan. Instances of 

 such carelessness are very common among the French 

 writers*. I must confess, however, that to me Lonan 

 sounds more Indian-like than Logan. — But it is very 

 certain, that there was such an Indian chief as Logan. 

 Of Lonan, I know nothing but what I find in 



THE WORK OF THE AbBE RoBIN. 



* I might, perhaps, mention several exceptions to tlie truth of 

 this observation : but I will content myself with mentioning one, 

 and the more so, because I often find myself obliged to differ from 

 him in sentiment, in regard to the questions which he has touched 

 on in his American travels: INIr. Volncy is the author I allude 

 to. 



