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Title: A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

Author: J. M. Peck

Release Date: December 3, 2008 [EBook #27394]

Language: English

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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 respec