Difference between revisions of "Illinois"
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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75057" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_75057" /> == | ||
<p> An American State as large as [[England]] and Wales; has the | <p> An American State as large as [[England]] and Wales; has the Mississippi for its western, the [[Ohio]] for its southern boundary, with [[Wisconsin]] and Lake [[Michigan]] in the N. and [[Indiana]] on the E.; fourth in population, seventeenth in area; "the [[Prairie]] State" is level, well watered, and extremely fertile; has a climate subject to extremes, but, except in the swamps, healthy. It produces enormous quantities of wheat, besides other cereals, of tobacco and temperate fruits. Flour-milling, pork-packing, and distilling are the chief industries. The most extensive coal-deposits in [[America]] are in this State; with navigable rivers on its borders, and traversing it Lake Michigan, a great canal, and the largest railway system in the Union, it is admirably situated for commercial development; originally acquired by Britain from the French, who entered it from Canada; it was ceded to the Americans in 1783, and admitted to the Union 1818; the State spends $12,000,000 annually on education, which is compulsory, and has a large and wealthy scientific and agricultural university at Urbana. [[Springfield]] is the capital; but [[Chicago]] (1,100) is the largest city. </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:32, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.sing. & pl.) A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
An American State as large as England and Wales; has the Mississippi for its western, the Ohio for its southern boundary, with Wisconsin and Lake Michigan in the N. and Indiana on the E.; fourth in population, seventeenth in area; "the Prairie State" is level, well watered, and extremely fertile; has a climate subject to extremes, but, except in the swamps, healthy. It produces enormous quantities of wheat, besides other cereals, of tobacco and temperate fruits. Flour-milling, pork-packing, and distilling are the chief industries. The most extensive coal-deposits in America are in this State; with navigable rivers on its borders, and traversing it Lake Michigan, a great canal, and the largest railway system in the Union, it is admirably situated for commercial development; originally acquired by Britain from the French, who entered it from Canada; it was ceded to the Americans in 1783, and admitted to the Union 1818; the State spends $12,000,000 annually on education, which is compulsory, and has a large and wealthy scientific and agricultural university at Urbana. Springfield is the capital; but Chicago (1,100) is the largest city.
