THE WEST: ITS SOIL, SURFACE, AND PRODUCTIONS. BY JAMES HALL. CINCINNATI: DERBY, BRADLEY & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1848. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847. BY JAMES HALL, in the Clerk's Office for the District Court of Ohio. LENOX NEW YORK CINCINNATI: STEREOTYPER AND PRINTED BY E. SHEPARD. Columbia Street, Cin. PREFACE. THE greater portion of the following work was published some years ago, under the title of "Notes on the Western States;" but as that, or a similar name, has since been adopted for several other publications, it has been thought expedient to change it to that which now appears on the title page. It is a matter of but little importance; but it is deemed proper to make the explanation, to avoid even the appearance of publishing, as a new work, a revised edition of one which has been long before the public. In preparing these pages for re-publication, it was found that much of the matter had been rendered obsolete, by the rapid growth of the country, and required to be writ ten over. There were other portions of the work, descriptive of the great outlines of the country, its natural divisions and permanent features, which are as true now, as when originally written, and which, as expressing the early and vivid impressions of the author, are retained without alteration. The amount of new matter introduced, has been considerable, and has rendered it advisable to omit several chapters of the former work, which will be thrown into another volume, and published as an additional series of this work. |