Indiana: In Relation to Its Geography, Statistics, Institutions, County Topography, Etc., with a "reference Index" to Colton's Maps of Indiana. Compiled from Official and Other Authentic SourcesThis book has been prepared to accompany Colton's maps of the state of Indiana, and to illustrate geography, statistics, and institutions of that important portion of the American Union. |
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1850 it contained 1850 the county abundant acres Albany bank barrens Bartholomew beech bituminous black loam bottoms bounded north cent chiefly Cincinnati Cincinnati and St clay coal formation corn county contained county seat creek Decatur district dwellings and families east and west east fork Eel river elected Elkhart Erie canal exported farms Fayette forests fork of White fund heavily timbered hickory hills hilly hogs Illinois Indiana Indianapolis Indianapolis railroad inhabitants internal improvements iron Jeffersonville Kankakee Lafayette Lake Michigan lands Lawrenceburg limestone Madison manufactures meridian Miami Michigan City mounted north and south northern Ohio river organized 1818 organized 1821 poplar Porte portion prairies Price principal streams productive establishments quantities railroad passes rich Ripley Rock salt sand sheet soil southwest square miles staples sugar Terre Haute Tippecanoe Tippecanoe river towns tributaries undulating Vincennes Wabash and Erie Wabash river walnut water-power wheat White river White Water
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Page 43 - The general assembly shall, from time to time, pass such laws as shall be calculated to encourage intellectual, scientifical, and agricultural improvement, by allowing rewards and immunities for the promotion and improvement of arts, sciences, commerce, manufactures, and natural history; and to countenance and encourage the principles of humanity, industry and morality.
Page 7 - Wabash river, from its mouth to a point where a due north line, drawn from the town of Vincennes, would last touch the northwestern shore of...
Page 7 - Wabash river ; and, thence, by a due north line, until the same shall intersect an east and west line, drawn through a point ten miles north of the southern extreme of Lake Michigan...
Page 7 - Vincennes, would last touch the northwestern shore of the said river; and from thence by a due north line, until the same shall intersect an east and west line...
Page 41 - January, 1847, proposals were made to the holders of bonds that they should complete the Wabash and Erie canal, and take the state's interest in it for one half of this debt, and the state would issue new certificates for the other half, upon which she would pay interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum until January, 1853, and after that time at 5 per cent...
Page 4 - MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA, Carefully compiled from the latest maps and charts and other geographical publications.
Page 19 - ... the greatest variety of different rocks, for thus only is produced the due mixture of gravel, sand, clay and limestone necessary to form a good medium for the retention and transmission of the nutritive fluids, be they liquid or aeriform, to the roots of plants.
Page 41 - In this 2J per cent, stock is also included 1 per cent, per annum upon the principal, which gives the holder of the old bond, when surrendered, 5 per cent per annum upon the new 5 per cent, stock from the dividend day next preceding his surrender of the old bonds.
Page 7 - King. Exhibiting the sections and fractional sections, situation and boundaries of counties, the location of cities, villages, and post-offices — canals, railroads, and other internal improvements, &c., &c.
Page 12 - ... occupying that portion of the state west of the second principal meridian ; 2, a limestone formation (similar to the mountain limestone of European geologists.) prevailing in the counties east of that meridian ; 3 a...