. A gazetteer of the states of Illinois and Missouri : containing a general view of each state, a general view of their counties, and a particular description of their towns, villages, rivers, &c., &c. : with a map, and other engravings. /;-//. Sofj/// <«•(•/ /7/ce ??^flW TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEW OP TOWl^S, &C. SOt to the permanent capital of the state, that it was destined to be*cofue a town of some importance. Osage fork of the Merrimaeki, heads near the Osage, andempties into the Merrimai k on the kft side. It is a smallstream, and crosses the road leadi 111° from tlie settlements on,Fourche a
. A gazetteer of the states of Illinois and Missouri : containing a general view of each state, a general view of their counties, and a particular description of their towns, villages, rivers, &c., &c. : with a map, and other engravings. /;-//. Sofj/// <«•(•/ /7/ce ??^flW TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEW OP TOWl^S, &C. SOt to the permanent capital of the state, that it was destined to be*cofue a town of some importance. Osage fork of the Merrimaeki, heads near the Osage, andempties into the Merrimai k on the kft side. It is a smallstream, and crosses the road leadi 111° from tlie settlements on,Fourche a Courtois to those on the Gasconade. Osage riter^ rises in the range of hills, which separates thewaters of the Kansas from those of the Arkansas, near the junc-tion of the Sinoakv Hill fork with the former. Its course, whichis, however, veiy devious, is generally a little north of east, andit empties into the Missouri, about 130 miles abovfc its consideialile number of tributaries empty into it from theliorth and south, the principal of which are Little Osage, GrandRiver, Yungar or Meungar, Cooks, and Vermilion rivers. The Osage atfords, in its wh(de length large bodies of thechoicest praii ie land, interspersed w
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