"A sketch descriptive of the situation, boundaries, face of the country, prominent districts, prairies, rivers, minerals, animals, agricultural productions, public lands, plans of internal improvement, manufacturers, &c. of the state of Illinois; also, suggestions to emigrants, sketches of the counties, cities, and principal towns in the state: together with a letter on the cultivation of the prairies, by the Hon. H. L. Ellsworth, to which are annexed the Letters from a rambler in the West"--T.p "The publisher is probably the author. It was got up mainly to promote the sale of Illinois lands then owned by John Grigg of Philadelphia."--Sabin, Bibl. Amer. v.9, no. 34260 Includes: Mitchell's map of Illinois exhibiting its internal improvements, counties, towns, roads &c. (Philadelphia : S.A. Mitchell, 1838) [9] p. of the publisher's advertisements at end Bound in boards with cloth spine; spine broken, loose pages (Lincoln copy) Holograph in ink on t.p.: Charles Henry Hall, to his son, Charles [unknown] Hall 16 18