A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . tory, wliich are all kept gar-risoned. Missionaries, from the various religious organizations in the states, have establishedstations at many points, who labor not only for the moral improvement, but for the literar)and physical advancement, of the people. At the Shawanee station, under control of tlieBaptists, books in different Indian languages have been printed and issued; journals andother works have also been published in the Shawanee dialect. A very respectably con-ducted newspaper is supported by the Cherokees, the editor of which is an e
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . tory, wliich are all kept gar-risoned. Missionaries, from the various religious organizations in the states, have establishedstations at many points, who labor not only for the moral improvement, but for the literar)and physical advancement, of the people. At the Shawanee station, under control of tlieBaptists, books in different Indian languages have been printed and issued; journals andother works have also been published in the Shawanee dialect. A very respectably con-ducted newspaper is supported by the Cherokees, the editor of which is an educated native. In compensation for the lands which were vacated by the transfer of these tribes to theirpresent locality, the United States paid, or stipulated to pay, between the years 1789 and1839, in money or in lands exchanged or reserved, upwards of $80,000,000. The numberof acre3«)f land thus acquired is about 420,000,000. The emigrants also receive consider-able annuities, from which they derive a portion of their means of IOWA, recently a dependency of the United States, is now an admitted member ofthe Federal Union. Until 1832, the country was held in undisputed possession by its rudeand roaming Indian inhabitants, of whoni it was then purchased; and settlements were soonthereafter commenced by civilized enugrants. In 1838, having been set off from Wisconsin,it was organized under a distinct territorial government; and in 1846, the territory was dulyelevated to the position of a free and independent American state. Boundary and Extent. — Iowa is bounded north by the Territory of Minnesota; east by theMississippi River, which separates it from the States of Wisconsin and Illinois ; south by theState of Missouri; and west and nortli-west by portions of the Territories of Nebraska andMinnesota, from which it is separated by the Missouri and the Big Sioux Rivers. Tlie countrylies between 40° SC and 43° 30 north latitude, and extends from 90° 30 to 90°
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