. Johnson's new universal cyclopaedia : a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge. , one of the central Stales of the Union, lyingin the Mississippi Valley, extending from the par-allel of -M 59 N. lat. to that of 42° 30, and from 8,°35 to 91° 40 W. Ion. It is bounded N. by AVisconsin, Lake Michigan, Indiana (from which it is in part sep-arated by the Wabash River), and by Kentucky, fromwhich it is separated on the S. E. and S. by the Ohio is also separated from Missouri for a short distance ontho S by the Mississippi River, which forms its entirewe
. Johnson's new universal cyclopaedia : a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge. , one of the central Stales of the Union, lyingin the Mississippi Valley, extending from the par-allel of -M 59 N. lat. to that of 42° 30, and from 8,°35 to 91° 40 W. Ion. It is bounded N. by AVisconsin, Lake Michigan, Indiana (from which it is in part sep-arated by the Wabash River), and by Kentucky, fromwhich it is separated on the S. E. and S. by the Ohio is also separated from Missouri for a short distance ontho S by the Mississippi River, which forms its entirewestern boundary, severing it from the States of Missouriand Iowa. Its territory extends both on the Ohio and Mis-sissippi rivers to the middle of those rivers. Its area is55,410 square miles, or 35,462,400 acres. Face of the Comi/ri/.—Illinois may be described m gen-eral t«riii3 as a gently inclined plain sloping from Lake Michigan toward the Mississippi and Ohio. A somewhatelevated plateau extends from Wisconsin into tho N of the State, and is there manifest in some bluffs. Seal of Illinois. and hills, and another moderate elevation includes Fordand the adjacent counties: but neither of these secticmsrises to a greater height than SOO feet above the sea, whilethe GrandPrairie is not more than 500 feet above the sea,and the lowest portion of the State, at the junction of theOhio and Mississippi, is 340 feet above tho Gulf of State is therefore very nearly level. The N. W . corneris the most uneven portion of the State, though the^nvcrshave in some instances cut such deep channels into the clayand alluvial soil as to give a broken appearance to the sur-face In the extreme S. there is a range of remarkablehills crossing the State from Grand Tower to , Lake,. c(c.—The State is drained almost exclu-sively by the Mississippi and its tributaries, the Ohio andit< affluent the Wabash, the Kaskaskia, the Illinois, andRock rivers, and the
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