CHAPTER XV 

 DRAlNIN(i TIll^: SWAMPS 



WHERE THE 



IN(^.ENlJ^r^■ oe has 



DEFEATEi) THE DESIGNS OF NATURE 



BY ERASING THE KANKAKE SWAMPS OFF THE 



MAP. THE OLD RIVER AND THE 



ONCE FAMOUS HUNTING 



(GROUNDS A PAS'E 



MEMORY 



It is not my purpose to write the story of the 

 reclaiming or rather, the story of the new Kan- 

 kakee f^iver. 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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