The bluffs are of limestone, admirably adapted for building purposes, and lime and brick are manufactured on an extensive scale. Immense forests of walnut, oak, maple and other hard wood, cover the islands of the river at this point and on the opposite shore, with every facility for its ready manufacture and use. Abundance of coal is found in close proximity to it, and an unlimited supply of pine and other lumber easily attainable from the upper waters of the Mississippi, arrivals of which are of daily occurrence. It is the central market for a country unsurpassed for fertility and productiveness, still enjoying extraordinary facilities for manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile pursuits. Louis, 110 north of west from Springfield, and 268 south-west from Chicago, at the western terminus of the line of railroad connecting it with the latter place. QUINCY, Is a flourishing city, capital of Adams county, beautifully situated on the Mississippi river, 160 miles above St. h., p v., seat of justice of Adams co., Ill., 104 ms. ( Haskell's Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the the United States.,1843) There are about 300 steamboat arrivals annually and pork is annually exported to the amount of $100,000. The court house stands on a fine public square. above the mouth of Illinois r., by water, and contains a court house, which cost $20,000, 4 churches-1 Congregationalist, 1 Episcopal, 1 Methodist, and 1 Baptist-25 stores, a United States land office, a large steam flouring and saw m., a carding machine, about 200 dwellings, and 1,500 inhabitants. QUINCY, p-v., capital of Adams co., Ill., 101 s.
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