CHAPTER XV 

 DRAINING THK SWAMPS 



WHERE THE 

 INGENUITY OF HAS 



DEFEATED THE DESIGNS OF NATURE 

 BY ERASING THE KANKAKE SWAMPS OFF THE 

 MAP. THE OLD RIVER AND THE 

 ONCE FAMOUS HUNTING 

 GROUNDS A PAST 

 MEMORY 



It is not my purpose to write the story of the 

 reclaiming or rather, the story of the new Kan- 

 kakee River, as it is a history in itself. In our 

 childhood we were taught by our teacher and 

 the geography that this vast region was a great 

 swamp and by the term "swamp" it means a 

 low depression in the earth's surface and this 

 was filled with water and mud and by applying 

 the term "swamp" this vast Kankakee Region 

 made a very large mud-hole, This teaching 

 was a great hinderance to the settling up of this 

 country and many men and women still cling 



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