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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h a very s:ood section of it. It istimbered mainly with oak. though hick-ory appears at intervals, \rith very largewhitewood. &^c.. on some of the sti-eams.The clearings are sparse and scanty.At Pawpaw (the capital of Van Burencounty) there is a srood water-power,well improved, and a thrivinaf countryvillacje. But. throughout all this region,there is a scarcity of springs and brooks.The soil seems less natural to grass thanto grain. The impression of Chicago, as seenfrom the lake, is, on the whole, unfavor-able to the beholder, owine to the levelsite, which gives a character of same-ness to its aspect not obser\-able as\newed from the land, whence you per-ceive not onlv the mere outline of thecity, but its shippinsf. churches, and oth-er public buildinars. which impart vari-ety and animation to the scene. The har-bor, like many others on the lake, is anartificial one. consistinsr of two piers en-tendinar in parallel lines out from theChica£jx> river into Lake Michi<jan. The
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554 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. difficulties which are encountered here,! firsl baptist church, is perhaps thein tlie effort to overcome by art the defi-, finest edifice in the city. It was built inciencies of nature, are necessarily very 1844, of brick, and is fifty-five by eightyoreat. To say nothing of the danger to ^ feet, with a handsome portico, columns,which the harbor is sul>jected from the and spire, which contains a bell and aice and storms of winter, the action of i clock with five dials.the winds and waves accumulates a de- The commercial and agricultural in-posite of sand which forms a bar not terests of all the states bordering upononly acniss the mouth of the channel, j the lakes are indissolubly associated withbut within the harbor itself Yet there j Chicago, as a place of deposite andis no place on the lake equal in adapta-1 transhipment. Situated at the head oftion or advantages for the cheap and 1 lake navigation, and at the termination of the Illinois

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