Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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000. The first settlement was madein the year 1826. Stage-coaches godaily to Chicago, and three times aweek to several other places. In 1846the arrivals of steamboats were threehundred and thirty-three, amounting tofiftv-eiijht thousand, five hundred andseventy-five tons. The exports, in 1846, were as follows :Lead, 672.620 pigs, worth §2,225,000 ;copper, §22,000 ; lumber, §100,000 ;hides,S14,S00; wheat, 150,000 bushels. Rock Island City is a small town onthe Mississippi river, a little above themouth of Rock river. The populationis now about 1,000. Bki.i.rvim.f,, fourteen miles fi*om St.Louis, is the seat of justice tor St. Claircounty, and contains three large flour-mills, and various other manufactories.One half of the population of the townand county are industrious Germans.The number of inhabitants was 1,207 in1840. and is now about 2,800. Roc/i Fort.—This is a prominent bluff*on the left bank of Illinois river, andrendered doubly interesting by an In- oo o c S W DO S?. <
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558 DESCKIPTIOS DF THK STATK OF ILLINOIS. flian tradition. It is about two luindreil;uid fifty teet hiirh. with steep, precipi-tous sides, wholly inaocessible in allparts except one. and presentinir a pe-Iuliar striped appearance, caused by anumber of strata of sandstone, of difter-eut shades, runnijiii; in a horizontal di-ivction. With the wide prairie on ne;side, and the river, flowing throule eminence rise like an immense watchtower, or nither castle—ia work of uiiiantic hands ; while, at the iplaces wheiv the neichborins; ianire ofhighland is connected with it by a nar-,row rid<;e. a little path conducts thestranirer to the summit, with great toil!and ditficulty. There he finds a level spot, about:three fourths of an acre in extent, over- jgrown with younu: trtvs, many of which stand upon an ancient ditch and a mound,which appears to have once served as a bi-eastwork round the circuit of this nat-ural

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