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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Some eleven miles southwestward from Chicago is a pleasant location called Summit; it is situated on the west bank of the Canal. At the commencement of that work, when it was designed for a ship canal, this point was laid out and designed for a large town. It is a beautiful sand and gravel ridge, covered with a fine grove of oak and hickory trees, some two miles long by half a mile wide, bordered in two directions by the best of prairie lands, and skirted on the other sides by the river timber; it lies some 20 or 30 feet higher than the Canal, and nearly 50 feet higher than Chicago; it is the highest point of land for many miles from the city; and presents excellent and healthful sites for farms. Near by, on the north side of Canal and river, located where the Plankroad crosses the O'Plain river, is the little town of Lyons, a place of note for the great quantities of good lime quarried and burned there?large portions of which are carried into the city, over the Plankroad, and has become a profitable business. Some 12 or 14 miles south of Chicago, at the mouth of Calumet river, there is a new town being built, of the name of the river. It is laid out in lots, many have been sold, and the place is principally owned by men in Chicago. A light-house and some other improvements have been made; the mouth of the river, with some piering and dredge-work, will afford a tolerable harbor and business facilities; and Calumet may yet become a considerable city. We have thus taken a hasty look at the Lake Towns of Wisconsin and Illinois, in a short call upon them; and though we have seen very much to delight us, we shall be none the less pleased with the interior towns and resources of the Western States, which we shall examine carefully, on a tour through them, after returning from ...
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