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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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The banks of the Ohio and theWabash, in several parts, are as eleva-ted as the land seen on the opposite sideof the streams, while the clusturinsr hou-ses near the shore, the signs of naviga-tion on the water, and the general as-pect of active and prosperous business,on the one hand, and of a varied andfruitful country, on the other, may affiirdan impi-ession of one of the westerntowns rising so rapidly on the bordersof those larcre and beautiful rivers. Theroofs of large public buildings are seenabove the numerous private habitations,and the number of church steeples,which present the most conspicuousobjects, indicate that various Christiandenominations in the country are repre-sented in our distant regions, arid car-ry with them their zeal and their in-dustry. There are salt-springs in differentpaits of Indiana; but the people wereformerly wholly supplied with salt fromthe United States saline, near Shawnee-town, and the salines of Kenhawa. Coalbeds exist in some places, and copper
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540 DKSCKIPTION OF THE STATK OF INDIANA. oiv is touiul in the north. From »\uly tliis state : the Mascotins, Piankeshaws,tiinos a rojH)rt has provailed that a silver ; Kiokapoos, Dolawares, Miamies, Shaw- nois, Wooas. Ouitanons, Eel Rivers,and Pottawotamies. In 1791 Cieneral Wilkinson invailodtheir country, luul destroyed their greattown, in which were one hundred andtwcntv houses, eihtY of which had shin-led roofs. The country about the upper parts ofthe Wabash is of the best kind, the soilbeing- black, deep, friable, and highlyproductive, and the surface extending in mine existed near (.^uitanon ; but theuniform surface of the country and thedee)> soil which covers a large part ofit, are unfavorable to the discovery ofmines. an*l to the abundance of mineralsof any kind. Largo tracts oC ihc state,as in many other extensive regions oftlie wovSt, are destitute oi rocks, stones,and even pebbles. The navigable waters of Indiana arevery numerous and extensive; the prin- cipal rivers b

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