A 



TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION 



OF THE 



INDIANA TERRITORY. 



This part of the northwestern country was con- 

 stituted a territorial government, by an act of 

 Congress, passed the 7th day of May, 1800, and 

 was bounded eastwardly by the following line of 

 separation ; viz. "All that part of the territory of 

 the United States, northwest of the Ohio river 

 which lies westward of a line beginning at the 

 Ohio, opposite to the mouth of the Kentucky 

 river, and running thence to fort Recovery, and 

 thence north until it shall intersect the territorial 

 line between the United States and Canada, shall, 

 for the purpose of a temporary government, con- 

 stitute a separate territory, and be called the In- 

 diana Territory. And Saint Vincennes, on the 

 Wabash river, shall be the seat of the govern- 

 ment." Only the eastern boundary is named in 

 the act, and the Indian claim of a large portion of 

 the Territory is not extinguished. The whole 

 tract, agreeable to this line, is bounded south by 

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