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 A

 NEW GUIDE FOR EMIGRANTS

 TO THE

 WEST,

 CONTAINING SKETCHES OF

 OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MISSOURI, MICHIGAN, WITH
 THE TERRITORIES OF WISCONSIN AND ARKANSAS,
 AND THE ADJACENT PARTS.



 BY J. M. PECK, A. M.

 OF ROCK SPRING, ILL




 BOSTON:

 GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN.

 FOR SALE BY THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED STATES.

 1836.




 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836,
 By GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN,
 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.




INDEX.


 CHAP. I.

 GENERAL VIEW OF THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

 Extent--Subdivisions--Population--Physical Features--Animal,
 Vegetable and Mineral Productions--History--Prospective
 Increase of Population,                                             11


 CHAP. II.

 GENERAL VIEW, &C., CONTINUED.

 Productions,                                                        32


 CHAP. III.

 CLIMATE.

 Comparative View of the Climate with the Atlantic
 States--Diseases--Means of Preserving Health,                       37


 CHAP. IV.

 CHARACTER, MANNERS AND PURSUITS OF THE PEOPLE.

 Cotton and Sugar Planters--Farmers--Population of
 the large Towns and Cities--Frontier Class--Hunters
 and Trappers--Boatmen,                                             102


 CHAP. V.

 PUBLIC LANDS.

 System of Surveys--Meridian and Base Lines--Townships--Diagram
 of a Township surveyed into Sections--Land Districts and
 Offices--Pre-emption Rights--Military and Bounty
 Lands--Taxes--Valuable Tracts of Country unsettled,                130


 CHAP. VI.

 ABORIGINES.

 Conjecture respecting their former Numbers and Condition--
 Present Number and State--Indian Territory appropriated as
 their Permanent Residence--Plan and Operations of the U. S.
 Government--Missionary Efforts and Stations--Monuments and
 Antiquities,                                                       144


 CHAP. VII.

 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

 Face of the Country--Soil, Agriculture and Internal
 Improvements--Chief Towns--Pittsburg--Coal--Sulphur and
 Hot Springs--Wheeling,                                             163


 CHAP. VIII.

 MICHIGAN.

 Extent--Situation--Boundaries--Face of the Country--Rivers--Lakes,
 &c.--Soil and Productions--Subdivisions--Counties--Towns--
 Detroit--Education--Internal Improvements projected--Boundary
 Dispute--Outline of the Constitution,                              179


 CHAP. IX.

 OHIO.

 Boundaries--Divisions--Face of the Country--Soil and
 Productions--Animals--Minerals--Financial Statistics--Canal
 Fund--Expenditures--Land Taxes--School Fund--Statistics--
 Canal Revenues--Population at different Periods--Internal
 Improvements--Manufactures--Cities and Towns--Cincinnati--
 Columbus--Education--Form of Government--History,                  193


 CHAP. X.

 INDIANA.

 Boundaries and Extent--Counties--Population--Face of the
 Country, &c.--Sketch of each County--Form of Government--
 Finances--Internal Improvements--Manufactures--Education--
 History--General Remarks,                                          222


 CHAP. XI.

 ILLINOIS.

 Boundaries and Extent--Face of the Country and Qualities of
 Soil--Inundated Land--River Bottoms, or Alluvion--Prairies--
 Barrens--Forest, or timbered Land--Knobs, Bluffs, Ravines and
 Sink Holes--Rivers, &c.--Productions--Minerals--Lead, Coal,
 Salt, &c.--Vegetables--Animals--Manufactures--Civil
 Divisions--Tabular View of the Counties--Sketches of each
 County--Towns--Alton--Projected Improvements--Education--
 Government--General Remarks,                                       251


 CHAP. XII.

 MISSOURI.

 Extent and Boundaries--Civil Divisions--Population--Surface,
 Soil and Productions--Towns--St. Louis,                            315


 CHAP. XIII.

 ARKANSAS AND TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS.

 ARKANSAS.--Situation and Extent--Civil Divisions--
 Rivers--Face of the Country--Soil--Water--Productions--
 Climate--Minerals--State of Society. WISCONSIN.
 Boundaries and Extent--Rivers--Soil--Productions--Towns, &c.,      323


 CHAP. XIV.

 LITERARY AND RELIG