A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . of any other region of like extent in North in most of the southern states of the Union, there are extensive tracts of low and swampygrounds, which, at certain seasons, are subject to destructive epidemics, arising from noxiousexlialations and impure water. The upper country, however, to which many of the inhabitantsretreat during the unliealthy months, is remarkably exempt from these injurious winters, which are of but two or three months duration, are generally so mild that vege-tation is but little interrupted, and c
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . of any other region of like extent in North in most of the southern states of the Union, there are extensive tracts of low and swampygrounds, which, at certain seasons, are subject to destructive epidemics, arising from noxiousexlialations and impure water. The upper country, however, to which many of the inhabitantsretreat during the unliealthy months, is remarkably exempt from these injurious winters, which are of but two or three months duration, are generally so mild that vege-tation is but little interrupted, and cattle roam at large upon the savannas and in the forests,where they find ample food. Snow and severe frosts are rare, although the thermometeroccasionally indicates a temperature as low as 20° Fahrenheit. Religion. —The religious denominations in Georgia are chiefly Baptists, Methodists, Epis-copalians, and Presbyterians. There are also some congregations of Romanists, , and Jews. STATES AND TERRITORIES. —ILLINOIS. •^7. ILLINOIS. This comparatively young member of the American Union was, never-theless, partially settled, by civilized adventurers, as early as the year 1673. A party ofenteri)rising Frenchmen from Canada accompanied M. De la Salle in his second explorationof the country, in tlie above year, when in search of the River Mississippi, and founded tlie vil-lages of Kaskaskias and Cahokia. These settlements continued to flourish for some years ; butthe people, by constant intercourse with the surrounding savages, gradually reduced themselvesto a semi-barbarous condition, and for a long period their numbers were but little augmentedby immigration. By the treaty of peace between the French and English, in 1763, theIllinois country, together with Canada, was ceded by the former to the latter, who took formalpossession two years afterwards. It remained in their hands, under several successive mili-tary governors, until 1778; in which year a body of
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