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Show 21.2 EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. the stream. The soil, like most alluvia) )and, is extremet fe ~hl~~ ana valuable where elevated sufficiently for the purp o s ~s o agnc_u ~ ture. The timber gigantic and extremely abundant 'I ~ e fol o ~mg Jist contains the most remarkable timber trees found on Hus tract, and will answer generally for all the adjacent country. Q,uercus tinctoria, Black oak, Quercus alba, White oak, Quercus rubra, Reo oak, Quercus pheJos, Willow leafed oak, LirioJendron lulipifcra, Poplar, Laurus sassafras, Sassafras, Juglans amflra, Bitternut hickory, Juglans squ amosa, Shell bark hickory, .. J uglans oli vreformis, Paccan J uglans nigra, Black walnut, Jugl ans catbartica, White walnut, Jun iperus v irginiana, Red cedar, Acer rubrum, Re·d maple, Acer negundo, Box alder, Carpinus ostrya, Iron wood, Carpinus americana, Hornbeam, Cerasu virginiana, 'Vild cherry, Comus ftoriua, Dogwood, Diospiros virginiana, Persimon, Fagus sylvestris, Beech, Fraxinus tomentosa, Common ash, Gleditchia triacanthos, Honey locust, Nyssa aquatica, Tupeloo Nyssa sylvatica, Black gum, PIHtanus occidentalis, Sycamore, Populus angulata, Cotton wood, Tilia pubescens, Linden, Ulmus rubra, Red elm, Ulmus americana, 1\fucilaginous elm, Ulmus aquatica, Water elm. There are many other species of trees found upon the rivers ang hills in this tract. besides those marked in the above list, but those enumerated are the most remarkable and most common. The size and quantity of valuable timber trees that are every where found east of St. Louis, upon the banks of the Ohio and .Mississippi riv~rs an_d their confluent streams, is not the least remarkable feature m the1r natural history, or least beneficial part of their useful properties to man. 1¥abash river, forms part of the southeast limit of Illinois territory, and possesses great sameness to the Ohio, near the conflue~c~ of tb.e two streams. Several smaiJ, but fine rivers rise in the lllmoJs tern· tory, and flow southeast into the Wabash, entering that stream. be· ]ow Vincennes: the principal of these are Embarrns an? ~1ttle Water. These two latter head with the sources of Kaskaskia nver. The other rivers of the Illinois territory are smaH and unimportant. EJ\IIIGRANT'S GUIDE. 2f3 ;~I any of the higher bran.ches ~f the IIJinois and '"abash are in the indian country; of course but Imperfectly known. Mountains, there are none in the country of IJJinois, or hills of any particular elevation. Some parts of the country is gently rolling, but the far greater part, flat prairie, or the alluvial margin of rivers. Town.{/. Kaskaskia, upon the river of that name, is the only town of consequence yet formed in the territory of IJlinois; it is the seat of government, and contains 800 or J 000 inhabitants. Cahnki~, fnur miles below St. Louis, and about one mile from the Mississipp i, is a handsome, but . mall village. Of the new towns, we have no cert ain knowlP.dge. No doubt but that the settlements of the bounty lands will produce a rapid and favourable change in the terri ltlry we ha ve been describing. Thb sc tt lement will also, as we hrlre :1l ready noticed, necessarily wil hdrCIW the seat of government frorn K a~k as ~i n ; and it M::ty be dJdtJ, change, within a few years, the territuri al in t • a sL1 tl· l!()Ver Hllent. Schools, coll~:' ~i~s , <tt d all other institutions, must be here in their infancy ; hu1 1 il.: t- other new setrlemrnts maue by thp emigrants from tbe Unit~d States, the provjsion for the education of youth is r.:Jeithe1· forgotten or neglected. Of the mineral or fossil productions of this country. we have said nothing. From the nature of the soil and ~ urfa ce, neither can be ex~ pected to abound, and the higher parts, where u~ually the most valuable and abundant metallic anJ fossil bo< lies could be reasonably sought after, we scarcely know, and have never been examined with either skill or care. (See JJppendix No. 11.) THE STATE OF INDIAN A, bas the Illinois territory west, the state of Kentucky southea t, the state of Ohio east, and the Michigan territory, and Jake Michigan and the Northwest territory, north. Exte?tt, population, rivers, productions. This state covers an area of 36,640 square miles;, equal to 2~,449,600 American acres. More than one half of this surface remains yet in possession of the Jndians. 'fhe southern and much most valuable part of the state is reclaimed, and is settling with emigrants from the northern and eastern states with great rapidity. The following statistical table exhibits the subdivisions of this state, and the population in 1810. This can afford but very defective document to give a c0rrect idea of the present state of the country. 'J'here is no doubt but that the number of jnhabitants have increased to near one hundred thousand at the present time. STATISTICAL TABLE OF INDIANA. Counties. Population. f!hiej Towns. 18 J o. Clark, 5,760 Jeffersonville, Dearborn, 7,310 Lawrenceburg, Harrison, 3,695 CORYDON, Jefferson, Knox, 7,965 Vincennes. .24,619 |