I wrote out two notices informing the public that I was willing to sell my real estate; one of these I pasted up at the Post Office, the other on the bridge over the Aux Plaines River.
A few weeks before, returning home from Joliet with his waggon and team of horses, he halted for a short time at a distillery, situated at the foot of the low bluff which bounded the bottom, through which ran the Aux Plaines River.
I met the editor of the 'True Democrat' nearly every day carrying home a bucket of water from the Aux Plaines river.
The Des Plaines is only ten miles west of Chicago.
Again: The river Des Plaines rises near the northern line of the State of Illinois, and running south parallel with the lake shore, at its junction with the Kankakee forms the Illinois.
Thence they were guided by a band of young warriors through the route up the Des Plaines River and across the portage to Lake Michigan.
Des Plaines river and the Illinois & Michigan Canal, and the terminus of the Chicago Sanitary District Drainage Canal, about 33 m.
It is in a picturesque farming country, and there are good limestone quarries in the valley of the Des Plaines river.
This map was evidently made after that voyage of La Salle in which he discovered the Illinois, or at least the Des Plaines branch of it.
Des Plainesbranch of the river Illinois], by a portage of a thousand paces.
The course of this portage is practically the present route of the famous Drainage Canal which joins the Chicago River with the Des Plaines at Elgin, Illinois.
Here were two courses: by way of either the Calumet or the Chicago River to the Des Plaines branch of the Illinois.
It was but now The sullen heauen had vail'd its mournfull brow With a black maske: the clouds with child by Greife Traueld th' Olympian plaines to find releife.
There amorous Sappho plaines vpon her lute Her loue's crosse fortune, that the sad dispute Runnes murmuring on the strings.
At a short distance above, where the bed of the Des Plaines approaches nearer the summit level, limestone ensues, and continues from that point northward to the shores of Lake Michigan.
Tis my choice that we make the Des Plaines before dark.
The Des Plaines was a narrow stream, flowing quietly through prairie land, although bordered along its shores by a thin fringe of trees.
Yet this voyage south along the Des Plaines was far from unpleasant, despite the labor involved and the discomfort of the leaking canoe.
As when the Tartar from his Russian Foe By Astracan over the Snowie Plaines Retires, or Bactrian Sophi from the hornes Of Turkish Crescent, leaves all waste beyond The Realme of Aladule, in his retreate To Tauris or Casbeen.
And I perswade myselfe that this might be done sometimes in Winter, to trees standing in faire plaines and kindly earth, with small or no danger at all.
I answer that men and cattell (that haue put trees thence, from out of Plaines to void corners) are better then trees.
If you aske why the plaines in Holderns, and such countries are destitute of woods?
On both sides of the Riuer wee beheld goodly and pleasant great plaines full of many green and beautiful trees, and farther within the land we beheld certaine exceeding high mountaines full of woods very pleasant to beholde.
These plaines on the right hand made a bay into a valley which seemed to be a piece of a mountaine: the rest shewed to be al plaines without any thistles or weedes, but full of grasse good for cattel very green and faire as I haue saide.
All along this shore wee sawe very goodly mountaines within the land, and many plaines and downes with some few trees, and the sea-shore was all sandy.
This maine was much more fresh and greene then the other which wee had passed, and had certaine plaines and points of mountaines of pleasant view, and full of greene grasse.
All that way and plaines are as full of crookebacked oxen, as the mountaine Serena in Spaine is of sheepe: but there is no people but such as keepe those cattell.
He comes for the most part in the plaines & meddows; he feeds like an ox, and the Oriniack so but seldom he galopps.
We found great plaines of 2 leagues and a halfe journey without a tree.
In those plaineswee kill'd stagges, and a great many Tourquies.
Then still must heauen view The plagues that vs pursue: And euery where descrie Heaps of vs scattred lie, Making the straunger plaines Fatt with our bleeding raines, Proud that on them their graue So manie legions haue.
So I in shady plaines shall plaine alone, Not (as I hop’d) companion of thy mone, O height of griefe!
They are practically tipping the bowls back the other way and so making currents to run down the old channel toward the gulf through the valleys of the Des Plaines and the Illinois to the Mississippi.
These twelve miles of road between the Des Plaines and Chicago had always been the terror of travellers.
The portage connected the Chicago River, then flowing into Lake Michigan, with the Des Plaines River, flowing into the Illinois River, which in turn discharges into the Mississippi opposite a point not far from St. Louis.
They came back by way of the Illinois and Des Plaines rivers, made the portage to Lake Michigan, and reached Green Bay at the end of September, having made known to white men the great river of the West.
These plaines doe abound with hares, fallow deer, partridges, and bustards.
In this tract is ye Earle of Pembroke's noble seat at Wilton; but the Arcadia and the Daphne is about Vernditch and Wilton; and these romancy plaines and boscages did no doubt conduce to the hightening of Sir Philip Sydney's phansie.
I remember, at the Royal Society, about 1666, whether Salisbury plaines were always plaines ?
Virginia, the natives did burn down great woods, to cultivate the soil with maiz and potato-rootes, which plaines were there made by firing the woods to sowe corne.
I have a conceit that long time ago Salisbury plaines might have woods of them, but that they cut them down as an incumbrance to the ground, which would turn to better profit by pasture and arable.
On Salisbury plaines are gray crowes, as at Royston.
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