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
 
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