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 Cass cent chiefly Cincinnati Cincinnati and St clay coal formation corn county contained county seat creek Decatur dwellings and families east and west east fork Eel river Elkhart Erie canal exported farms Fayette forests fork of White Franklin fund heavily timbered hickory hills hilly hogs Illinois inches Indiana Indianapolis Indianapolis railroad inhabitants iron Jefferson 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 prairies Price principal streams productive establishments quantities railroad passes rich Rock salt sand sheet Shelby soil southwest square miles staples sugar Terre Haute Tippecanoe Tippecanoe river towns tributaries undulating Vincennes Wabash and Erie Wabash river walnut water-courses water-power wheat White river White Water
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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...
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Page 40 - By the acts of the legislature of 19th January, 1846, and 27th 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...
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Page 44 - ... seminaries, and moneys and property heretofore held for such seminaries, all fines, forfeitures, and escheats, and lands not otherwise specially granted, including the net proceeds of the sales of the swamp lands granted to the State by the act of Congress of September 28, 1850. The principal of the fund may be increased, but shall never be diminished, and its income shall be devoted solely to the support of common schools.
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Page 19 - It is well known to geologists that that soil is most productive which has been derived from the destruction of 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 substances, be they fluid or aeriform, to the roots of the plants.
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Page 1 - WOM is, in all its natural and political relations, but also the progress of discovery from the earliest ages. In its compilation, every facility has been rendered by the liberality of our own government in furnishing published and private maps and documents; and also by the governments of Europe, especially those of France and England, whose rich stores of geographical works have elicited much, that until the present publication has been as a sealed letter. As a work of art, it excels all its predecessors,...
Page 10 - Both the ancient and modern names of places are given. MAP OF PALESTINE, From the latest authorities : chiefly from the maps and drawings of Robinson <& Smith, with corrections and additions furnished by the Rev. Dr. E. Robinson. 2 sheets. Size, 43 by 33 inches. Price, mounted, §3 50...