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Show CON'l'ENTS. 1 ft t rel·-mountaw. s. -Tennessef eT· rivesr~-:s:teae-. .. d extent-natura ea .ul ., d climate of the state o enne -k - an d' t e upon-sm an .1 t' roads -Kentuc y tionary IS anc h h'tstory-prouuc Jons- t'. tov"ns col- progress~. ve ograp y- · oduc tons- ' ' ge ra b -population-nvers-pr 1cal table of-pro-progressive geogl ~-Jllinois terrilory-topografh.d ·n-limber trees leges and schoo s. -history-rivers-bounty an s' I rs--lowns-vil· gres5ive geoSgr~ph~ Indiana-statistical table of-1 r~.e e-187-217. -towns.- ta e o . nd c:taples-merc lan Is Iages-sch ools-productwns, a ~ CHAPTER VI. bical table-natu ... te of-popu1ation-~xtent-topotra~history-towns- Ouxo-sl~ -rivers-progressive geog rap l~ania-West Virginia ral geograp y ~-climate-West Pennsy. ·r s-towns-productions- season::, . rals-mountains-nvers-ct te -natural geograpbydm•~:als-improvement-21.8-266. productions-propose c CHAPTER VII. . . f l.t' 1 dt.v t.s .w ns o f. -L ak es-MtcbtBga nt- St Lawrence-po I tea ntry-roads.- oa s H BASIN 0E n. e• -0 n t an.o . -Rivers-G. en. es.s e·e ecro -uC ana1 1r rom Hudson uron-:-t ble to navigate the Misstss~ppt rLI~ t .of roads.-Advice to most sm a t Champlam.- 15 k to Erie-from Hudson o G phical ~nd statistical wor s on- Emigrants.-Ohio valley.- eogra 267-298. APPENDIX. N . -II. Canals.-IIJ. West~rn set- I Form of a SpanJsh Grant. V Population in Indiana.tlemoe. nt•s .-lV. L a t e IndianH Tr'eltaotny ·-in t· he state o f Ne w-y .o rk.- vi American wine.-VII. ami . 'ation of the Aleghany nver.-Vl ii Inland N avigation.-IX. N avtg the Mississippi and confluent . d Navigation.-XI. Steam ~n . . " ~~;r~~~XII. Birkbhe~k'1s t"bJI~u~~e{h~1 !:~~~~1a.partf5 of the state of N Topograp tea a New-oytoer- k , and of Michigan territory. .. ' • JlREFACE. · TnE daily increasing importance of th Western and Southwe·steri) States and Ter-ritories of the United States, and the immense population which the tide of ernigr·ation is accumulating in those regions, render an accurate topographical <l~scription of their natural and artificial features a desideratum in geographical seience. Many local circumstances of the greatest consequence to travellers, are not made the subjectG of remark, in any work extant. Even the manner and conditions, in, and under which the public lands of the United States are sold, the situation, pro·.. . ductions and climate of the '\tV estern and Southwestern States, are very imperfectly described, in most geographical worJ s. Dr. Drake's account of Cincinnati, is the best publication extant, relative to the States of Ohio and Kentucky ; but that performance, judicious as it is, em braces but a small part of the extensive country, in the Valley of the Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, and their confluent streams. As to Stoddard' · Louisi:ma, Brackenridge's views of Louisiana, and Darhy's Louisiana, they, like Drake's Cincinnati, fumish only loca}jnformation. Mr·. Melish's WOJ'k, accompanying his large map, contains a p;em·ral description of the U nitcd States ; but, being part of an expensive work, which ft~w persons, comparatively, have it in their. power to procure, its usefulness is conse .. quently very confined. In the present work, it has been the intention of the author, to con,.. dense into one portable, and cheap volume, such notices of the country described, as would tend to remove many obsbcles. The roads are arranged for each State and Territot·y, which m·e necess:u·y for a removal to any given place in the VaHey of the Mississippi, by all the various routes now travelled, either by land or water. The•description of tenure, under which the F1·ench and Spanish go.vernments granted lands to individuals, is but imperfectly known in the United States, and emig,·ants ought to gain a pr·evious knowlt>dge of its nature, before removing to places, where all landed p1·operty, not sold by the United States, is held and tr·ansferr d under a species of title, having but little analogy to any with which they had a previous acquaintance. As the author of this work was one of the surveyors, who for scv raJ years assisted in adjusting the ancient boqnda,·i('s of land, in Louisiana, he had frequent and favourable opportunities of gaining correct informa .. t-ion, respecting the French and Spanish land titles. Though many Jocal circumsbnces may he omitted, yet the author 1latters himself, that the traveller in the valley of the Mis,sissippi, will .tifld the Emigrant's Cruide an useful manual. 1 |