The states and territories of the great West : including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota [sic], Kansas, and Nebraska . as built an asylum for the deafand dumb, and an institution for the blind, and a hospi-tal for the insane, at Indianapolis. There are in thestate about two thousand churches, accommodating sevenhundred thousand persons. The common schools andcolleges are endowed more liberally than those of anyother new state. The constitution provides that thecommon school fund shall consist of the congressionaltownship fund, and the lands belonging ther
The states and territories of the great West : including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota [sic], Kansas, and Nebraska . as built an asylum for the deafand dumb, and an institution for the blind, and a hospi-tal for the insane, at Indianapolis. There are in thestate about two thousand churches, accommodating sevenhundred thousand persons. The common schools andcolleges are endowed more liberally than those of anyother new state. The constitution provides that thecommon school fund shall consist of the congressionaltownship fund, and the lands belonging thereto; of thesurplus revenue, saline, and bank-stock funds; the fundderived from the sale of county seminaries, and moneyand property heretofore held for such seminaries; all fines,forfeitures, and escheats, and lands not otherwise speciallygranted, including the net proceeds of the sales of theswamp-lands granted to the state by the Act of Congress,September twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundredand fifty. The principal of the fund may be increased,but shall never be diminished; and its income shall bedevoted solely to the support of common JP m EXTINGUISHMENT OF INDIAN TITLES 199 CHAPTER XIII. ILLINOIS. Extinguishment of the Indian titles—Admission as a state — Greatearthquake of 1811 — Effect on the Mississippi — Effect on the In-dians — First steamboat on the Mississippi — Keel-boat naviga-tion — Keel-boatmen — Nature of the population — Length andbreadth of die state— Number of counties— Lands improved andunimproved — Number of farms —Value of farming implements —Annual products — The soil — The American Bottom—Prairielands — Grand Prairie — Coal regions —Yankee fences in Illinois —Mode of forming settlements on the prairie — Plowing the prai-rie — The timber region — Minerals — Lead region — Chicago —Rivers, canals, and railroads—Varieties of climate — The winter of1855-56—Seasons of the greatest cold
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