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Show PREFACE. !?. . f m New Or1 e ans, to the vu.rious p.o ints A statement of the dl ·tanccs r? . . . Alabama auu Missou '1, 1l as in ( Mexico MtsSlSStppt, ' f the ronte9 Louitiiana, Texas, . ' extensive a plan; many o . ' . b fore been published on so ·l A knowlcdg . of the ~ca-ncvet C • U. ny formct• WOl {. • l" the ar ... not even mentiOn , ~n a t. cl either hy land or water, IS o t f the year, most sutl ahl~ to l av l\~ . j) "nsc and cmlwrrassmcn SOil PI o t the enugrant. ~Ole ex . . r times, ut 1tost importance o t· blisheu settlemr.nts, at nnpt ope . arise from travelling in newly ~~:~e to believe. Waul of informatwn. o~ than mll.ny person could be is also a somce of trouble . ~n . b' t of the means of conveyance, . l cmove with fatmlt s. the su JCC , t' l· rly those, w to r . . ·ns~ to emio-raut!'l, par .tcu .t bl ·d the author to mention, m expt . o th subject has ena e f I 'J1he Praetical exp•~ricnce on c . > r' rices anu usual mart o sa e. d t. 'I the vco-dable stapl 'S, thCI p . . and Southwestern States c .a1 , " • • the W est<'J n .· . t l ·cat articles of eultme Ill ·u ucmand the most seBou ll'CC gt Flour and Sugar, WI , and T rritori s, Cott~n~ . ·k relative to those places. ) . ttention in cv ry statistical wm ' . ·' l oldino· up exaggerated prosp<:.cts a T!le author has been caref ul to a vmu1 '1 1t ami0 hi•rhly colom·c d pi·C t ure s; 1 Y overwroub 1 c 0 1 o- · gc of rapid gain ; t 1e man . ts of what is in common ani?ULl . which have heen d.rawn of utfferent p~r d~ccd more evil and injury than II the 'Vt~stern Country, have pi o . s do present .flattering views oo , , . l That those rcgwn l l l r can be easily conccJve.c. doubt; but there is no country, ~v 1ere a )0~·- to the emigrant, there IS no d h . the common routme of acquu is not indispensably neces Sary' .a n w CI e '·l~cr o·3in i. not slow and grad~al. 'ty the authm· of this work takes uoW r,i th 'h is best wt• sh cs f Ol. theu· pros pen ' l~ve of his readers.. New- Ym·k, Sept. 18th~ 1817. 'l 'HE E~iiGR.:\NT'S GUJDE. CHAPTER I. 'rH A'l' part of the United States, which has received the term We~tern, relatively to the part east of the Aleghany mountains, lies entirely in the valley of the Mississippi, and Basin of the CanaJian I .. akes. The southwestern parts of I he United States south of Tennessee and west of Georgia. lie in the valleys of the Mississippi, Mobile an I Apalachicola rivers, and other smaller streams in their vicinity. The following table wilJ exhibit the extent and population of this part of America. Population./ s~:~:n~ii7es.J Acres. Louisiana II 0,000 48,220 30,8GO 800 lHh.sissippi 40,000 ~ 44,500 I 28 ·lbO,OOO Alabama 25,000 44,fJOO 28,480,00() 'l'enessee 340,000 40,000 25,600,00() Kentucky ~ 580,000 I :19,000 24,9GO 00<' Ohio 346,000 39,000 24,9oO,OOO InJiana 100,000 34,000 21,760,000 Illinois 20,000 I 50,000 32,000,000 Missouri *200,000 1,200,000 768,000,00() Michigan 7,000 !t7 ,000 17,280 00(} N. W. Territory I 147,000 94,080.000 Texas 10,000 100,000 6 -1.000,(·00 jl,77U,OOO I 1,813,220 I 1,l(i0,460,tWO 'Vhen the valley of the Missisc;ippi is mentioned in this work, it is to be understood as comprising all the cow1try urained by that ri\'er, properly so called, or i ~s tributary streams. In describing each of the territorial divisions in this work, we will commence with the most southwestern, and proceed in the order of natural position as far as practicable. Following this arrangement, the state of Louisiana will fir~t present itself . Be lore entering on a detCiil of this st~te, it may not be irrelevant to t>xplain the difference between Louisiana in it! extended sense, and I he state of Louisiana as created by act of Congress. "Vhen Louisiana was taken possession ot: Dec. 20th . 1803. it wa~ temporarily Jiviueu into two terntmies, the territory of Orleans, and that of Louisiana. The territory of Orleans, comprisi'ug the same limits, except West FJorida, that uow contain the slate of Louisiana, ·as when the territory of Orleans becar:Le a state, cbaugeu to the ~~ Induding the lnilians. - |
