The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-05-22
INTERESTING SKETCH OF IOWA aND
WISCONSIN.

WAoAo4tGlNs
We learn from the Pro, iJence Journal
that an instructive lecture upon these new
States was delivered in that civ on tho
18th ult.. by DR.. j. v. q. Smith, Of Bos-
ion-a lecture repleie with information
derived from TOUR through those coun.
tres durlngthe past summer. Tie Jour.
nal gives an abstract OF The discourse from
which we gain the following:
The Territory Of Wisconsin is 600
miles long. and on an average $50 miles
broad, and larger than the whole Of New
England. louais GOO miles long, and on
an average 500 miles broad--one third
larger than New England. The resour.
ces OF the country are immense--yon
may ride day alter day over plain Of un-
bounded fertility and hardly meet hu.
man being. The sun rises out OF the
green grass, courses through The Heavens
and sels IN green grass AGAIN. ,rhist~...-
v~.ngs. there Is succession OF pra-
ries rising one above the other like a
figh, Of steps. This has been'caused by
. succession Of upheaves from below.
The Mississippi, now quite narrow
stream, was formerly IGOR 20 miles wide,
and has been reduced to its presen, bed
BY these upheaves Of the earth. d. go
The mounds found here prove this to
have been a very old country. There is
a series Of these structures reaching from
Western New York to the Gulf Of Next
co, and from Wheeling, Va, to the base Of
the Rocky Mountains. These mounds
are often 100 feet in height, and 300 feet
upon side at the base. Their construc-
lion NUT have cost much time and labor.
The wateri is pumped up from the Missis-
sippi TO the top Of enc Of these mounds
and thus carried to the city Of St. Louis.
/ The elevation Of the mound is sufficient
to carry the water into the third story oil
every house of the city. Some Of the
mounds are sepulchral and contain i'm
mense quantities Of human bones.
Some of the mounds are Notifications
extremely we'll constructed. Upon these
mounds trees have grown up and decay
ed, and other trees now old, have grown
up"n their ruins. There is upon one o.
them tree with four hundred coneentrit
circles, allowing 1t TO have been at leas
four hundred wears old. and this standing
upon the ruins Of another tree, probabl,
as old when il fell into decay. There cal
be no doubt that this country was former
~ inhabited by an industrious, peaceabl'
and comparatively civilized people, VIII
were ex,erminated by The Eruption oil tn
Indians, Tartar tribe, which is compa
lively recent event.
Geologists atlmi, that this continent i
older than Europe, and this country wa
formerly the bed of the ocean. Th,
proofs &c this are numerous and conclr
sive. II is lime country, and lime is
product of the ocean. The immense mass
es of stone around the falls Of St. Anthem.
are composed Of sea shells. This counir'
has been thrown up from the bottom Q
the ocean by series ofupheaves, the las
, of which was the Rocky Mountains, dl
viding this great ocean into the Allanii
and Pacific oceans.
Here are to be series Of States oil I'm
mense extent, aud more fertile than an
other part Of the country. II is the bes
, part Of the country for man TO settle IN
, lie can 60 there and select farm an
: not be called upon to pay cent for 1t Ia
: perhaps two or three generations, an
5 when the land is eventually brought u
, TO market he can be sure TO have IT at tn
!, minimum price of sl,25 per acre.
{ man who should overbid a squat,er coul
(. not safely remain in the country.
1 The American Fur Company con
mands universal respect among The IL
i dams. They are punctual in fulfilling
!, their engagements, and they neser sc
= any liquor. The Indians have no lei
!. for the United States Government. The
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