History of Chicago: Its Commercial and Manufacturing Interests and Industry : Together with Sketches of Manufacturers ... with Glances at Some of the Best Hotels, Also the Principal Railroads which Enter Chicago |
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Page 46 - Oriental ruby, side by side with the sapphire and the Oriental topaz — both rubies of different colors — what are they ? Crystals of our commonest argillaceous earth, the earth which makes our potter's clay, our pipe clay, and common roofing slate — mere bits of alumina. Yet these are our best gemsŤ these idealizations of common potter's clay.
Page 16 - December, 1822, devotes four pages to this subject, and refers to an act of the preceding Congress, which "gave permission to the State to cut a canal through the public lands, connecting the Illinois river with Lake Michigan, and granting to it the breadth of the canal, and ninety feet on each side." With this was coupled the onerous condition "that the State should permit all articles belonging to the United States, or to any person in their employ, to pass toll free for ever.
Page 16 - On the third day after the battle, the family of Mr. Kinzie, with the clerks of the establishment, were put into a boat, under the care of Francois, a half-breed interpreter, and conveyed to St. Joseph's where they remained until the following November, under the protection of To-pee-nee-bee's band.
Page 93 - ... extensive commerce ; and that its culture should have spread more rapidly than that of the most useful plants. At the time of the discovery of America, tobacco was in frequent use among the Indians, and the practice of smoking was common to almost all the tribes ; and they pretended to cure a great variety of diseases by this plant.
Page 38 - On flesh days, through the year, breaklast for my lord and lady was a loaf of bread, two mauchets, a quart of beer, a quart of wine, half a chine of mutton, or a chine of beef boiled. On meagre days, a loaf of bread, two manchets...
Page 70 - ... than useless. The broad Pacific cannot be traversed by it. Its rich commerce invites the merchant ship, and rewards the navigator, but the steamer must hug its shores, and cannot profitably explore its ample bosom. It is the mission of man to hold the earth and its waters in subjection by machinery. By machinery he is destined to lighten the drudgery which at the dawn of creation fell upon his race. To accomplish this he has been endowed with genius and inventive power; and where the force of...
Page 13 - that a special order had been issued by the War Department, that no post should be surrendered without battle having been given; and that his force was totally inadequate to an engagement with the Indians. That he should, unquestionably, be censured for remaining, when there appeared a prospect of a safe march through, and that upon the whole, he deemed it expedient to assemble the Indians, distribute the property among them, and then...
Page 27 - The center of productive power cannot be ascertained, with any degree of precision. We know it must be a considerable distance east, and north of the center of population. That center, too, is on its grand march westward. Both, in their regular progress, will reach Lake Michigan. The center of industrial power will touch Lake Erie, and possibly, but not probably, the center of population may move eo far northward as to reach Lake Erie also.
Page 15 - Indians pursued him as he galloped along. He laid himself flat on the neck of his horse, loading and firing in that position, as he would occasionally turn on his pursuers. At length their balls took effect, killing his horse, and severely wounding himself. At this moment he was met by Winnemeg and Wau-bansee, who endeavored to save him from the savages who had now overtaken him.
Page 39 - ... there is no drink conduceth more to the preservation of the one and the increase of the other than ale, for while the Englishmen drank only ale, they were strong brawny able men, and could draw an arrow an ell long ; but. when they fell to wine and beer, they are found to be much impaired in their strength and age. So the ale bore away the bell among the doctors.