IN RELATION TO ITS

Geography, Statistics, Institutions,

COUNTY TOPOGRAPHY, ETC.

WITH A "REFERENCE INDEX TO

COLTON'S MAPS OF INDIAN A.

Compiled from Official and other Authentic Sources.

BY RICHARD S. FISHER, M.D.,

AUTHOR OF "THE BOOK OF THE WORLD," ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK :

PUBLISHED BY J. H. COLTON,

No. 86 CEDAR STREET.

. 1852.

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

J. H. COLTON,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

Southern District of New York.

5-8-1928

ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS little book has been prepared to accompany COLTON'S MAPS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA, and to illustrate the geography, statistics, and institutions of that important portion of the American Union. The descriptions, though brief and concise, embrace nevertheless a great mass of information useful not only to the immigrant settler, but also to those who, from long residence in the state, may be entitled to the distinguished title of citizen. The descriptive portions of the work have been chiefly compiled from the publications of the most recent writers; but a large mass of information has also been derived from the labors and inquiries of the publisher's agents, and from numerous private sources, all of which has been incorporated. The statistical matter is chiefly based on the census of 1850, the official returns of the several departments of the federal and state governments, and from the reports of companies incorporated within the state. Every available source of accurate information, indeed, has been consulted, and the publisher has no hesitation in saying that there is no other work on the same subject, and within the same compass, that furnishes so much valuable information as is contained herein.

With regard to the maps themselves, most persons who will be likely to purchase them are already cognizant of the course the publisher has taken to make them accurate and perfect. His agents in Indiana-intelligent and business-like men-have been engaged for about three years in visiting every part of the state, observing its condition, and noting from day to day its progress; and the publisher has here to acknowledge with gratitude the important

assistance they have had from all those of whom they have sought information; and he at the same time would tender for himself his thanks to the officers of the several railroad and other incorporated road companies who have so willingly troubled themselves to lay down the true lines of their several roads on the maps that have been sent them for that purpose. All these gentlemen may be said to be the authors of the works, for without their aid it would have been impossible to have compiled them. Their trouble will be repaid materially by the possession of more accurate maps than could otherwise have been made.

The maps are three in number, varying little but in the scale on which drawn, and the amount of information they severally contain.

The largest map is engraved on six plates, and when mounted is 66 inches long, and 48 inches broad. It contains the full surveys in sections, the general topography of the state, the internal improvements, and all the information usually found on the most elaborate maps.

The medium sized map is engraved on two plates, and measures 43 inches long and 32 inches wide. All the features of the large map are found in this, but on a reduced scale.

The small map is engraved on one sheet, and is intended only as a traveling map, but contains, nevertheless, more than the usual information found in like works.

All these maps are engraved in the best style of art, and are colored in a handsome manner. A REFERENCE INDEX, by the aid of which any place on the maps may be readily found, is appended to this work.