Collins, II., 498.

Letter of Daniel Boon, April 1, 1775.

Collins has done good work for Kentucky history, having collected a perfect mass of materials of every sort.

But he does not discriminate between facts of undoubted authenticity, and tales resting on the idlest legend; so that he must be used with caution, and he is, of course, not to be trusted where he is biassed by the extreme rancor of his political prejudices.
Of the Kentucky historians, Marshall is by far the most brilliant, and Mann Butler the most trustworthy and impartial.

Both are much better than Collins.
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