A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. INDEX. CHAP. I General View of the Valley of the Mississippi. Extent—Subdivisions—Population—Physical Features—Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Productions—History—Prospective Increase of Population, 11 CHAP. II General View, &c., Continued. Productions, 32 CHAP. III Climate. Comparative View of the Climate with the Atlantic States—Diseases—Means of Preserving Health, 37 CHAP. IV Character, Manners and Pursuits of the People. Cotton and Sugar Planters—Farmers—Population of the large Towns and Cities—Frontier Class—Hunters and Trappers—Boatmen, 102 CHAP. V Public Lands. System of Surveys—Meridian and Base Lines—Townships—Diagram of a Township surveyed into Sections—Land Districts and Offices—Pre-emption Rights—Military and Bounty Lands—Taxes—Valuable Tracts of Country unsettled, 130 CHAP. VI Aborigines. Conjecture respecting their former Numbers and Condition— Present Number and State—Indian Territory appropriated as their Permanent Residence—Plan and Operations of the U. S. Government—Missionary Efforts and Stations—Monuments and Antiquities, 144 CHAP. VII Western Pennsylvania. Face of the Country—Soil, Agriculture and Internal Improvements—Chief Towns—Pittsburg—Coal—Sulphur and Hot Springs—Wheeling, 163 CHAP. VIII Michigan. Extent—Situation—Boundaries—Face of the Country—Rivers—Lakes, &c.—Soil and Productions— Subdivisions—Counties—Towns— Detroit—Education—Internal Improvements projected—Boundary Dispute—Outline of the Constitution, 179 CHAP. IX Ohio. Boundaries—Divisions—Face of the Country—Soil and Productions—Animals—Minerals—Financial Statistics—Canal Fund— Expenditures—Land Taxes—School Fund—Statistics— Canal Revenues—Population at different Periods—Internal Improvements—Manufactures—Cities and Towns—Cincinnati— Columbus—Education—Form of Government—History, 193 CHAP. X Indiana. Boundaries and Extent—Counties—Population—Face of the Country, &c.—Sketch of each County—Form of Government— Finances—Internal Improvements—Manufactures—Education— History—General Remarks, 222 CHAP. XI Illinois. Boundaries and Extent—Face of the Country and Qualities of Soil— Inundated Land—River Bottoms, or Alluvion—Prairies— Barrens—Forest, or timbered Land—Knobs, Bluffs, Ravines and Sink Holes—Rivers, &c.—Productions—Minerals—Lead, Coal, Salt, &c.—Vegetables—Animals—Manufactures—Civil Divisions—Tabular View of the Counties—Sketches of each County—Towns—Alton—Projected Improvements—Education— Government—General Remarks, 251 CHAP. XII Missouri. Extent and Boundaries—Civil Divisions—Population—Surface, Soil and Productions—Towns—St. Louis, 315 CHAP. XIII Arkansas and Territorial Districts. Arkansas. —Situation and Extent—Civil Divisions— Rivers—Face of the Country—Soil—Water—Productions— Climate—Minerals—State of Society. Wisconsin. Boundaries and Extent—Rivers—Soil—Productions—Towns, &c., 323 CHAP. XIV Literary and Religious Institutions for the West.