Centennial History of Mason County: Including a Sketch of the Early History of Illinois, Its Physical Peculiarities, Soils, Climate, Production, EtcRokker's steam printing house, 1876 - 352 pages |
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... region forming the State of Illinois is bounded on the north by Wisconsin , east by Lake Michigan and the States of Indiana and Kentucky , south by Kentucky , and west by the States of Missouri and Iowa . Its extent from north to south ...
... region forming the State of Illinois is bounded on the north by Wisconsin , east by Lake Michigan and the States of Indiana and Kentucky , south by Kentucky , and west by the States of Missouri and Iowa . Its extent from north to south ...
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... or groves of timber , containing from 100 to 2000 acres , in the midst of the prairie , like islands in the ocean . This is a common feature be- tween the Sangamon river and Lake Michigan , the region HISTORICAL EVENTS . 19.
... or groves of timber , containing from 100 to 2000 acres , in the midst of the prairie , like islands in the ocean . This is a common feature be- tween the Sangamon river and Lake Michigan , the region HISTORICAL EVENTS . 19.
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... region of Illi- nois in which our own Mason county , forms so conspicuous and desirable a part . The largest tract of prairie in Illinois is called Grand Prairie . Under this general name is embraced the country lying between the water ...
... region of Illi- nois in which our own Mason county , forms so conspicuous and desirable a part . The largest tract of prairie in Illinois is called Grand Prairie . Under this general name is embraced the country lying between the water ...
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... regions of the western states . Several steamboats are constantly employed in the Illinois river trade , and others make occasional trips . At as early a date as 1836 , thirty - five different steamboats passed and landed at Havana ...
... regions of the western states . Several steamboats are constantly employed in the Illinois river trade , and others make occasional trips . At as early a date as 1836 , thirty - five different steamboats passed and landed at Havana ...
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... regions of country of the garden State . McKee's creek , emptying on the west side , is the lowest of the tributaries of the Illinois of any note , from the military tract . The land on this creek and its branches is excellent , and ...
... regions of country of the garden State . McKee's creek , emptying on the west side , is the lowest of the tributaries of the Illinois of any note , from the military tract . The land on this creek and its branches is excellent , and ...
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Centennial History of Mason County: Including a Sketch of the Early History ... Joseph Cochrane No preview available - 1876 |
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Page 94 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 68 - THESE are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name— The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness.
Page 94 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 275 - Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides; Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all that lie between; Save one dull pane, that, coarsely patch'd, gives way To the rude tempest, yet excludes the day...
Page 17 - River, according to the said map, until it is intersected by the parallel of forty-three degrees and thirty minutes North latitude; thence East along said parallel of forty-three degrees and thirty minutes until said parallel intersects the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi River; thence down the middle of the main channel of said Mississippi River to the place of beginning.
Page 270 - No person shall be required to attend or support any ministry or place of worship against his consent, nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship.
Page 275 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there!
Page 275 - The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they! The moping idiot and the madman gay. Here too the sick their final doom receive, Here brought, amid the scenes of grief, to grieve, Where the loud groans from some sad chamber flow, Mix'd with the clamours of the crowd below; Here, sorrowing, they each kindred sorrow scan, And the cold charities of man to man...
Page 275 - There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they! The moping idiot and the madman gay.
Page 5 - That it be, and is hereby, recommended by the Senate and House of Representatives to the people of the several States that they assemble in their several counties or towns on the approaching centennial anniversary of our national independence, and that they cause to have delivered on such day an historical sketch of said county or town from its formation, and that a copy of said sketch may be filed, in print or manuscript, in the clerk's office of said county, and an additional copy, in print or...