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and soil Minerals - Salt springs-Water communications -

Crops Domestic commerce Railroads

ing-Churches - Taxable property, etc..

Institutions of learn

French agriculture - Population - Geography Geology -The lower

peninsula - White-oak openings Burr-oak openings -
"Cat-

holes"-Pine woods of the north-Windfalls Soil and fruits of

the lower peninsula -Pasturage Settlements of Michigan - Com-

mercial advantages - Detroit and other ports Site for a great

central city-The rivers― The lakes around Michigan-Improved

lands - Annual products - Schools, churches, and other institu-

tions Attractions to the settler-Exemption laws.

Yankee emigrants-Emigration checked by the war of 1812 -

Admission as a state-Rapid settlement of the state Where the

settlers came from-Soil of the state-The Ohio and Whitewater

valleys The White River Valley - The Wabash Valley

navigation Canals Railroads Agricultural products

table institutions, churches, colleges, and schools.

Extinguishment of the Indian titles Admission as a state

earthquake of 1811 Effect on the Mississippi - Effect on the In-

dians First steamboat on the Mississippi -Keel-boat naviga-

tion Keel-boatmen Nature of the population - Length and

breadth of the state- Number of counties Lands improved and

unimproved Number of farms Value of farming implements

Annual products The soil- The "American Bottom ”— - Prairie

lands Grand Prairie — Coal regions-Yankee fences in Illinois

Mode of forming settlements on the prairie-Plowing the prai-

rie- The timber region - Minerals Lead region Chicago

Rivers, canals, and railroads -Varieties of climate-The winter of

1855-56 Seasons of the greatest cold— Schools, colleges, and

libraries Exemption laws.

Organized as a territory - First settlements

Rapid emigration

Source of emigration - Admission as a state Number of coun-

ties, dwellings, and families-Nature of the population State

laws, with regard to voters Courts Interesting provisions of

the constitution

Length, breadth, and general surface of the

Southern Wisconsin Superior natural advantages- Prai-

ries Oak openings - Abundant pasturages - Inducements to set-

tlers Southern Wisconsin compared with other states

of agricultural wealth Lead mines Iron region - Lime-

-White marble - Northern Wisconsin - Extensive pine

Water-power- The Wisconsin pine

sawed Climate of Wisconsin - Health

Opinion of physi-

cians Commerce Harbors Milwaukie brick Railroads

Educational institutions and laws - Exemption laws,

The Black Hawk Purchase

First settlements

- Second Indian pur-

chase Reports of the surveyors Erected into a territory

Garden of the West Constitution formed - Provisions of the

constitution Refuses the terms of admission as a state-
A new

constitution - Admission as a state-Length and breadth of the

state Population Number of dwellings and families - Number

of counties Amount of unimproved lands - Excess of male pop-

ulation Source of emigration Most populous counties Land

speculations - Advantageous geographical position
General ap-

pearance of the state Agricultural condition and resources

Coal-fields Limestone Cedar Valley Soil - Minerals -Com-

merce Shipping ports - Capital of Iowa Iowa City - Rail-

roads - Advantage to settlers Public institutions,

MINESOTA TERRITORY.

Explorations of the Upper Mississippi Location of the territory

"The New England of the West" Territorial boundary -Laws-

Counties Population Nature of the population Crops -Gen-

eral surface of the territory-Geology Above Crowing River

Chalk formation James River Buffalo pasture-ground — Big

Sioux River Red pipestone quarry- St. Peter's River Bottom-

lands Blue Earth River St. Peter's Valley-The paradise of

farmers Lake Pepin
Terror of the lumbermen of the north

Timber Wild rice Soil and its products The Red River of

the North Springs and lakes Minesota the Artesian fountain

of the continent Underground hydraulic power Boiling

springs Magnificent forest-Destiny of Minesota
Indian sum-

mers - Manner of perfecting a squatter's title St. Paul-Table

of distances from Galena to St. Paul Rates of fare,

THE SUPERIOR COUNTRY.

Lake Superior - American coast Anchorage - Harbors — Dan-

ger of navigating the lake-Curious phenomena of the lake -

Transparency of its waters The mirage of Lake Superior

Islands Isle Royal- Lakes in Isle Royal Perennial ice

Effect of the extreme cold on the growth of the trees Rock Har-

bor-Streams emptying into Lake Superior Appearance of the

shore Iron-works of Carp River - Porcupine Mountains

of distances The La Grande Sables - Pictured Rocks Onton-

agon River
- Montreal River Sturgeon River The Iron re

gion - The different beds, etc.- Geologists' opinion of the iron

region — Location of good agricultural lands - Advantages of a

railroad through the iron regions - The copper region of the Supe-

rior country Lake Superior reverenced by the Indians The first

Englishman who visited the copper region - Extract from his jour-

nal — First mining company-Mining companies of Keweenaw

Trap rock-Silver among the copper-Cliff mine - Copper Falls

mine, rich in silver- Largest mass of copper Table of the pro-

ducts of foreign mines Eagle Harbor-Game and speckled

trout Fisheries of Lake Superior - Climate, etc.

KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.

Boundary of Kansas Best lands open for settlement
for settlement - Valleys of the

tributaries of the Arkansas River, and of the Smoky Hill Fork of

the Kansas-Pasturage - The land between the desert hills and

the Rocky Mountains The Kansas River Valley of the Grand

River Timber - Coal Springs Council Grove The Grand

Prairie The Upper Arkansas Pawnee Rock The mirage

Table of distances from Independence City to Pawnee Rock The

Santa Fé trade - Southern Kansas ores - Settlements of Eastern

Kansas Kansas laws for the recognition of land claims In-

dians of Kansas "First right"-Table of distances from Fort

Riley to Missouri border- Military roads-Climate of Kansas

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TABLE OF DISTANCES,

Viâ the principal thoroughfares, to the Great West

EARLY EMIGRATION TO THE WEST.

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