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Title Illinois in 1837 [microform] : 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 ; together with a letter on the cultivation of the prairies / by H.L. Ellsworth ; to which are annexed the letters from a rambler in the West.

Imprint

Philadelphia : S.A. Mitchell, 1837.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of American Civilization Microfiche Cabinets	LAC 16201.	---	Available

Description	143 p. : folded map.
Series	Library of American civilization ; LAC 16201.
Note	Front. wanting.
	Another ed., with same t.-p., pub. with cover-title: Illinois in 1837 & 8 ... Philadelphia, 1838.
	"The publisher is probably the author. It was got up mainly to promote the sale of Illinois lands then owned by John Grigg of Philadelphia."--Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 9, no. 34260.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 16201)
Subject	Illinois -- Description and travel
Added Author	Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868, supposed author.
	Rambler in the West.