MDDM Ch. 51

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491.1 "South Mountain" A significant battlefield of the American Civil War:

http://www.cmhl.org/smbf.html

Cf. also references to Antietam, Antietam Creek at 496.25 & 27

491.19 "Shappo" = chapeau (i.e. hat)

492.26 "'Fair Blapsia, I am thine' [...]" (?)

494.14 "Black Dog" Seemingly a local legend: sometimes called "the Snarly
Yow". (?)

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1422/s_yow.html

495.33-5 "Leadership," Mason mumbling to himself. Turning to Dixon, "One of
        us,-- "
         "Me. As usual."

Dixon, by virtue of his more charismatic and assertive personality, has
gradually, and much to Mason's relief, taken on the role of "leader".

496.3 "Sensorium"  1. the area of the brain considered responsible for
receiving and integrating sensations from the outside world  2. (Physiology)
the entire sensory and intellectual apparatus of the body [17th C. from Late
Latin, from Latin *sensus* felt, from *sentire* to perceive]

496.9 "the Glowing Indian of South Mountain" (?)

496.30 "a remarkable Cavern" (?)

http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/features/caves.html

Perhaps:

http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/showcave/md/crystal.html

496-7 "Staphel Shockey" and family (?)

http://home.earthlink.net/~bjburtle/pages3200/page4220.htm

Staphel (?)

497.3-13 "-- So it reads in the Field-Book." Does it?

497.22 "Welsh Indians"

The legend of Prince Madoc

Many of our American visitors will be familiar with the story of Madoc, a
prince of Wales who, in the twelfth century, is supposed to have discovered
America. The story first appears in _A True Reporte_, written by Sir George
Peckham in 1583. This document supported the first Queen Elizabeth's claim
to the New World. It was repeated in Humphrey Llwyd's _Historie of Cambria_
the next year. In 1810, John Sevier, one of the founders of Tennessee wrote
about a belief among the Cherokee Indians that there had been a
Welsh-speaking Indian tribe. Their chieftain was supposed to have told
Sevier that he had heard his father and grandfather speak of a people called
the Welsh, and that they had crossed the seas and landed at Mobile in
Alabama.  

Welsh scholars have been long been sceptical, especially since the Madoc
story was promoted in the 19th century by the bard Iolo Morganwg, someone
not renowned for his devotion to accuracy in the sphere of history. For many
Welshmen, however, the story has long had a certain resonance and Professor
Hartmann tells us that "On January 13th 1804, an American President of Welsh
ancestry, Thomas Jefferson, despatched a letter to another Welsh-American,
Meriwether Lewis, containing a map of the Upper Missouri valley. The map had
been prepared by a third Welsh-American, John Evans." 
  
John Evans left his home in rural North Wales in 1792. He travelled to
London and then across to remote parts of the USA in search of Madoc's Welsh
Indians. Fuelled by the revival of 'Madoc fever' and the strong support of
his London-Welsh contemporaries, the young weaver set out to rediscover the
"Welsh Indians". He appears to have worked for a Spanish company in America
and became a surveyor. Despite his best efforts, Welsh speaking Native
Americans were not found but the legend lives on.  

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/madoc.htm

http://members.iquest.net/~sdo/madoc.htm

http://www.celticmist.freeserve.co.uk/madoc.htm

http://www.barstow.cc.ca.us/wac/madoc.htm

497.24 "Captain Shelby"

Biographical Sketch

Evan Shelby was a native of Wales. He immigrated to America with his family
when he was fourteen or fifteen and settled in Pennsylvania. His family
moved to Maryland a few years later. Shelby acquired nearly 24,000 acres of
land in that state and engaged in the Indian fur trade as well. He entered
the militia in Maryland and fought in the French and Indian War. Following
the war, Shelby served as a justice of the peace for a number of years. In
1773, having lost most of his Maryland land to settle debts incurred in the
Indian trade, Shelby moved to Fincastle County, Virginia, becoming a farmer,
merchant, and cattleman. He became an active militia officer again in
Dunmore's War and the American Revolution. A change in state boundaries
placed his property in North Carolina. Shelby was elected to its state
senate in 1781. In 1786 Shelby was named brigadier general of militia in the
Washington District of North Carolina. He retired the following year.
Shelby's son Isaac twice served as governor of Kentucky and was the first to
hold the position. Evan Shelby owned some Kentucky land granted to him for
military service.

http://digilib.kcvl.org/dynaweb/oak/knuead/92sc46/@Generic__BookView

498.4 "Eldritch Powers"

http://users.lycaeum.org/~yara/int/dictionary/eldritch.htm

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