. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. ^ at Joliet; and a Home for (99) 100 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. Soldiers Orphans at Normal. On November 30, 1870, the i^iiblic debt ofthe State was returned at $4,870,937, with a balance of $1,808,838unprovided for. At the same period the value of assessed and equalizedproperty presented the following totals: assessed, $840,031,703 ; equal-ized $480,664,058. The name of Illinois, through nearly the whole ofthe eighteenth century, embraced most of the known regions north andwest of Ohio. French colonists established themselves in 1673, a
. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. ^ at Joliet; and a Home for (99) 100 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. Soldiers Orphans at Normal. On November 30, 1870, the i^iiblic debt ofthe State was returned at $4,870,937, with a balance of $1,808,838unprovided for. At the same period the value of assessed and equalizedproperty presented the following totals: assessed, $840,031,703 ; equal-ized $480,664,058. The name of Illinois, through nearly the whole ofthe eighteenth century, embraced most of the known regions north andwest of Ohio. French colonists established themselves in 1673, atCahokia and Kaskaskia, and the territory of which these settlementsformed the nucleus was, in 1763, ceded to Great Britain in conjunctionwith Canada, and ultimately resigned to the United States in entered the Union as a State, December 3, 1818; and now sends19 Representatives to Congress. Population, 2,539,891, in \\ESTEKX DWELLIN< THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. lOl INDIANA. The profile of Indiana forms a nearly exact parallelogram, occupy-ing one of the most fertile portions of the great Mississippi Valley. Thegreater extent of the surface embraced within its limits consists of gentleundulations rising into hilly tracts toward the Ohio bottom. The chiefrivers of the State are the Ohio and Wabash, with their numerousaffluents. The soil is highly productive of the cereals and grasses—mostparticularly so in the valleys of the Ohio, Wabash, Whitewater, andWhite Rivers. The northeast and central portions are well timberedwith virgin forests, and the west section is notably rich in coal, constitut-ing an offshoot of the great Illinois carboniferous field. Iron, copper,marble, slate, gypsum, and various clays are also abundant. From anagricultural point of view, the staple products are maize and wheat, withthe other cereals in lesser yields ; and besides these, flax, hemp, sorghum,hops, etc., are exte
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