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innumerable herds of buffaloe, elk, and deer. All 

 the variety of forest trees and shrubs, common 

 to the western country, are found in some parts 

 of the Indiana Territory ; but different kinds" 

 abound more in some situations and soils than in 

 others. There is also a great difference in the 

 size of the growth of the same kind of trees, in 

 different soils. In the neighbourhood of the 

 Illinois the crab-apple, plumb, and cherry trees 

 grow in great plenty, yielding fruit in abundance. 

 Here the grape vine flourishes admirably, pro- 

 ducing large quantities of grapes, of which the 

 inhabitants make a good red wine, for their own 

 consumption. It is said in the year 1769, one 

 hundred and ten hogsheads of well tasted and 

 strong wine were made by the French settlers, 

 from the grapes. The sugar-maple, and black 

 and white mulberry grow in plenty. 



The settlers on this river are almost entirely- 

 French people, who live principally in small vil- 

 lages. Where the land is cultivated, it yields 

 large crops of almost every article they commit 

 lo the ground. It has been found that tobacco, 

 h. Jigo, hemp, and flax, can be raised here to much 

 advantage. 



Between the Illinois and the falls of Saint An- 

 thony, a distance of about eight hundredand sev- 

 enty miles, there are a large number of consider- 

 able streams, and some of them navigable rivers, 

 which come from the eastward and discharge 

 their waters into the Mississippi. The following' 



