A SKETCH

DESCRIPTIVE OF THE

SITUATION, BOUNDARIES, FACE OF THE COUNTRY,

PROMINENT DISTRICTS,

PRAIRIES, RIVERS, MINERALS, ANIMALS,`
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS,

PUBLIC LANDS, PLANS OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT,

MANUFACTURES, &c.

OF THE

STATE OF ILLINOIS:

ALSO,

SUGGESTIONS TO EMIGRANTS,

SKETCHES OF THE COUNTIES, CITIES, AND PRINCIPAL TOWNS
IN THE STATE:

GRIGG & ELLIOT, No. 9, N. FOURTH STREET.

1837.

Entered according to the act of congress, in the year 1837, by S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL, in the office of the district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN.....PHILADELPHIA.