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Although this is a very level country, there are an 

 abundance of mill privileges, on never failing streams, 

 which possess the singular feature of never rising or fall- 

 ing, except a mere trifle. 



If you think my present sketch may be interesting to 

 your readers, I will probably give you a continuation of 

 it hereafter. — Till then I remain 



Yours &c. 



Solon Robinson. 



Description of Northwestern Indiana, continued 



[Madison Republican and Banner, Apr. 30, 1835 1 ] 



Robinson's Prairie, N. W. part of Ind 

 February 25, 1835 



Messrs. Editors: 



Your paper of Jan. 15, containing my former letter, 

 has been some time received. I should have complied 

 with your polite request for a continuance ere this, but 

 that my "cabin" has been so constantly crowded with 

 "land hunters," as to deprive me of an opportunity. — The 

 present being an excessive "cold snap," has so froze up 

 others that I have room to go ahead. Apropos, of cold; 

 — although more North than your section of country, we 

 do not suffer as much here as there, with cold. — It freezes 

 harder, but the air is more dry and bracing, and less 

 changeable. With the same clothing, a person will be 

 more comfortable, except when crossing wide Prairies 

 in a windy, or more particularly, snowy time. Then 

 there is real danger. — Persons have sometimes become 

 bewildered and lost in their course, and exposed to great 

 suffering. Though there are but few, and probably none 

 of the Prairies in Indiana so extensive or scarce of tim- 

 ber but that they will be densely settled in a short space 

 of time. But in Illinois, they become so immense that 

 it cannot be expected that the central portions of them 



1 Reprinted in The Comet, Charlestown, Indiana, May 9, 1835, 

 and in Gary Evening Post, August 27, 1918, with comment by 

 A. F. Knotts. 



