mill sites. In Cass and St. Joseph counties, are Four-mile, Beardsley,
Townsend, McKenny, La Grange, Pokagon, Young, Sturges, Notta-wa-Sepee,
and White Pigeon prairies, which are rich tracts of country, and fast
filling up with inhabitants.

Michigan abounds with small lakes and ponds. Some have marshy and
unhealthy borders;--others are transparent fountains, surrounded with
beautiful groves, an undulating country, pebbly and sandy shores, and
teeming with excellent fish. The counties of Oakland, Livingston,
Washtenaw, Jackson, Barry, and Kalamazoo, are indented with them.

_Productions._--These are the same, in general, as those of Ohio and New
York. Corn and wheat grow luxuriantly here. Rye, oats, barley,
buckwheat, potatoes, and all the garden vegetables common to the
climate, grow well. All the species of grasses are produced luxuriantly.
Apples and other fruit abound in the older settlements, especially among
the French about Detroit.

It will be a great fruit country.

_Subdivisions._--Michigan had been divided into 33 counties in 1835,
some of which were attached to adjacent counties for judicial purposes.
Other counties may have been formed since. The following organized
counties show the population of the State, (then Territory,) at the
close of 1834.

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| _Dist. from
COUNTIES. _Population._ | SEATS OF JUSTICE. Detroit._
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Berrian, 1,787 | Berrian, 180
Branch, 764 | Branch, 133
Calhoun, 1,714 | Eckford, 100
Cass, 3,280 | Cassopolis, 160
Jackson, 1,865 | Jacksonsburgh, 77
Kalamazoo, 3,124 | Bronson, 137
Lenawee, 7,911 | Tecumseh, 63
Macomb, 6,055 | Mount Clemens, 25
Monroe, 8,542 | Monroe, 36
Oakland, 13,844 | Pontiac, 26
St. Clair, 2,244 | St. Clair, 60
St. Joseph, 3,168 | White Pigeon, 135
Washtenaw, 14,920 | Ann Arbor, 42
Wayne, 16,638 | Detroit,