Shot Tower near Selma

Description

The vessel continued upriver on the morning of March 23. Beyond Fort Chartres Island, site of an old French settlement about ten miles above Ste. Genevieve, it approached the villages of Selma and Herculaneum. In his journal Maximilian described the curious rock formations observed along this stretch of the Mississippi and mentioned in passing the shot tower near Selma sketched by Bodmer around eleven o'clock.