What to see in America . Coming from the Spring-house Indiana 235 have made him the poet laureate of Indiana and belovedthe country over. His home was in Indianapolis in laterlife and he died there in 1916. That prince of contem-porary humorists, George Ade, was born in 1866 at Kent-land, about forty miles northwest of Lafayette. A little tothe south of Lafayette was born, in 1870, near South Raub,John T. McCutcheon, one of the most famous of our news-paper © Dttroii Fub. Co. The Roosevelt Passing through State Street Bridge XXV Illinois On the south side of the Illinois River,
What to see in America . Coming from the Spring-house Indiana 235 have made him the poet laureate of Indiana and belovedthe country over. His home was in Indianapolis in laterlife and he died there in 1916. That prince of contem-porary humorists, George Ade, was born in 1866 at Kent-land, about forty miles northwest of Lafayette. A little tothe south of Lafayette was born, in 1870, near South Raub,John T. McCutcheon, one of the most famous of our news-paper © Dttroii Fub. Co. The Roosevelt Passing through State Street Bridge XXV Illinois On the south side of the Illinois River, seven miles belowthe city of Ottawa, is an immense cliff peculiarly conspic-uous for its isolation and the inaccessibility of its rises to a height of one hundred and twenty-five feetdirectly from the rivers border, as abrupt on three sides asa castle wall. The only way to cHmb it is by a steep narrowpath in the rear. The circuit of its level top measures aboutsix hundred feet. There La Salle began the erection of FortSt. Louis in November, 1682, immediately after his returnfrom discovering the mouth of the Mississippi. Scarcelywas the wilderness fort completed when the Indians flockedto the vicinity to dwell in supposed safety protected by theFrench flag; and the occupants of the rock looked down ona multitude of black tepees scattered far along the opposite 236 Illinois 237 bank of the river. One spring the French were obliged todefend the rock agains
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