What to see in America . 242 What to See in America. Ottawa Indians another street is the substantial brickdwelHng of Brigham Young. After the Mormons departed, aconsiderable number of communistsfrom France settled at leader was a great Frenchlawyer, writer, and politician namedCabet, who wrote a novel called AVoyage in Icarie, describing anideal nation. This produced such animpression that soon nearly halfa million persons signed themselveshis followers. For a while the Illi-nois Icarians flourished. Mills wereerected, workshops were equipped,their farms were well tilled, their s
What to see in America . 242 What to See in America. Ottawa Indians another street is the substantial brickdwelHng of Brigham Young. After the Mormons departed, aconsiderable number of communistsfrom France settled at leader was a great Frenchlawyer, writer, and politician namedCabet, who wrote a novel called AVoyage in Icarie, describing anideal nation. This produced such animpression that soon nearly halfa million persons signed themselveshis followers. For a while the Illi-nois Icarians flourished. Mills wereerected, workshops were equipped,their farms were well tilled, their school was one of the bestin the state, they had an excellent library and an admirableorchestra, and they published a weekly magazine which wona wide circulation; but dissension developed, and Icariadisintegrated, though colonies in other parts of the countrykept the movement alive till 4895. In the most northwestern county of the state, at CharlesMound, is the highest spot in Illinois, 1241 feet above sealevel. Illinois is called the Prairie State.
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