The history of Clinton County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns &c., biographical sketches of citizens . nt minister m tneState. He settled at Rock Spring, in St. Clair County, 1820, and left hisimpress on the State. Before 1837 only party papers were published, butMr. Peck published a Gazetteer of Illinois. Soon after John Russell, ofBluffdale, published essays and tales showing genius. Judge James Hallpublished The Illinois Monthly Magazine with great ability, and an annualcalled The Western Souvenir^ which gave him an enviable fame all over theUnited States. From
The history of Clinton County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns &c., biographical sketches of citizens . nt minister m tneState. He settled at Rock Spring, in St. Clair County, 1820, and left hisimpress on the State. Before 1837 only party papers were published, butMr. Peck published a Gazetteer of Illinois. Soon after John Russell, ofBluffdale, published essays and tales showing genius. Judge James Hallpublished The Illinois Monthly Magazine with great ability, and an annualcalled The Western Souvenir^ which gave him an enviable fame all over theUnited States. From these beginnings Illinois has gone on till she hasmore volumes in public libaaries even than Massachusetts, and of the44,500,000 volumes in all the public libraries of the United States, shehas one-thirteenth. In newspapers she stands fourth. Her increase ismarvelous. In 1850 she issued 5,000,000 copies; in 1860, 27,590,000 ; in1870, 113,140,000. In 1860 she had eighteen colleges and seminaries; in1870 she had eighty. That is a grand advance for the war decade. This brings us to a record unsurpassed in the history of any age,. W THE STATE OF IOWA. GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION. The State of Iowa has an outline figure nearly approaching that of a rec-tangular parallelogram, the northern and southern boundaries being nearly dueeast and west lines, and its eastern and western boundaries determined bysoutherly flowing rivers—the Mississippi on the east, and the Missouri, togetherwith its tributary, the Big Sioux, on the west. The northern boundary is uponthe parallel of forty-three degrees thirty minutes, and the southern is approxi-mately upon that of forty degrees and thirty-six minutes. The distance fromthe northern to the southern boundary, excluding the small prominent angle atthe southeast corner, is a little more than two hundred miles. Owing to theirregularity of the river boundaries, however, the number of square miles doesnot reach that of the multiple of these numbers; but ac
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