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Excerpt from A Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri: Containing a General View of Each State, a General View of Their Counties, and a Particular Description of Their Towns, Villages, Rivers, With a Map, and Other Engravings The map which is prefixed to this work, was protract ed from manuscript surveys] obtained at St. Louis and Vandalia, to which I made such additions as were from time to time received through the kindness Of my friends. The county boundaries in Missouri, are the result Of a laborious examination Of all the territorial and state laws on the subject, to the present year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.