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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: Jasper and Newton Counties CHAPTER I CO-OPERATION OF NATURE AND MAN The Kankakee And Iroquois-Surface Geology-Mineral Springs-Topography, Soil And Products-Moulding Of Nature By Man-What The Fires Did To Drive Out Rank Forage-The Live Stock Of Jasper County-Agriculture And Live Stock Forty Years Ago. The watershed between the Lake Michigan region and the, Valley of the Kankakee is about fifteen miles south of the great lake. If the territory now included in Jasper and Newton counties should be classified according to the arrangements of nature it would be placed in the great Illinois country. Its far northern sections are within a swamp area of the Kankakee Valley and in the earlier period of its political existence, or until the creation of Lake and Porter counties in 1836, it contained a large area of these lowlands north of the Kankakee. Some of its southern townships also extended into the Valley of the Wabash, but with the formation of Benton County in 1840 the territory to be covered by this history was embraced entirely within the Valley of the Illinois. The'Kankakee And Iroquois. The Kankakee, which is one of the leading tributaries of the Illinois, rises in St. Joseph County, Northern Indiana, flows southwest through Northwestern Indiana, receives the Iroquois in the first tier of Illinois counties, and, after a course of about 230 miles, enters the Illinois River above Morris. The Iroquois River, the chief tributary of the Kankakee, drains the central and southern portions of Jasper and Newton counties, flows southwest and west Vol. I-1 into the State of Illinois, and then turns abruptly north to the Kan- kakee. So that Jasper and Newton counties are not only in the broad northern Valley of the Kankakee, with its torpid Books History~~General A-standard-history-of-Jasper-and-Newton-counties-Indiana~~Lewis-H-Hamilton Nabu Press<

ISBN: 9781178754155

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ISBN: 9781178754155

A Standard History Of Jasper And Newton Counties, Indiana: An Authentic Narrative Of The Past, With An Extended Survey Of Modern Developments In The Progress Lewis H. Hamilton, William Da… Mehr…

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ISBN: 9781178754155

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