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CONTENTS.--I. Flower, G. History of the English settlement in Edwards County, Illinois. 1882.--II. Reid, H. Biographical sketch of Enoch Long. 1884.--III. Edwards, N. The Edwards papers. 1884.--IV. Mason, E. G., ed. Early Chicago and Illinois. 1890.--V. Boggess, A. C. The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830. 1908.--VI-IX. Polk, J. K. The diary of James K. Polk ... 1845 to 1849 ... ed. ... by M. M. Quaife. 1910.--X. Putnam, J. W. The Illinois and Michigan canal. 1918.--[XI] Ingraham, C. A. Elmer E. Ellsworth and the zouaves of '61. [1925]--XII. Knight, R. and Zeuch, L. H. The location of the Chicago portage route of the seventeenth century. 1928.

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