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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. 1: 1867-1876 Davenport is a thriving commercial and manufacturing city of about inhabitants, situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River, in the heart of an extensive grain-growing region. The city being as yet scarcely forty years old, its population, like that of most west ern towns, is unsettled and constantly changing. Nearly all its inhabitants are engaged in active business, and but few have the leisure or inclination to cultivate the more unremunerative branches of knowledge. The city is however, so situated as to afford many advantages to the student of Nature. The underlying limestone abounds in fossils of the Hamilton and Upper Helderburg groups, the rivers and ponds produce a remarkably fine development of molluscan life, wlii'e the close proximity of the prairies to the wooded bottom lands, affords a rich field for the botanist and the entomologist. This region was once the residence of a prehistoric people, who have left many obscure traces behind them, furnishing an abundance of material for the archaeologist to ponder over. 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.