A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

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A
NEW GUIDE FOR EMIGRANTS
TO THE
WEST,
CONTAINING SKETCHES OF
OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MISSOURI, MICHIGAN, WITH
THE TERRITORIES OF WISCONSIN AND ARKANSAS,
AND THE ADJACENT PARTS.
By J. M. PECK, A. M.
OF ROCK SPRING, ILL
BOSTON:
GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN.
FOR SALE BY THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED STATES.
1836.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836,
By Gould, Kendall & Lincoln,
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

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