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Excerpt from A Review of the Commerce, Manufactures, and the Public Private Improvements of Galesburg: Containing a Brief History of Knox College, and Sketches of the First Settlement of the Town
Within these pages facts at once interesting and useful. It may be that much has been omitted that should have appeared, and much admitted that were better out; and, if so, this must be my excuse; siboe I con cluded to undertake this work 1 have been compelled to make a perilous journey by flood and land in search of a Press on which to print it - to edit a weekly paper, assist in getting ready to issue a Daily, and perform ing sundry other duties too tedious to mention.
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