History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantages for business, manufacturing, etc. Pub. under the auspices of the Springfield board of trade, by J. C. Power.

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TOPOGRAPHY OF ILLINOIS AND STATISTICS OF POPULATION.
A brief statement will assist persons Starting from Chicago, the column of
who have never been in this prairie figures on the left represents the number
country, to form some idea of its topo- of feet the railroad track lies above or
graphy. Low water in the Ohio river at below the waters of Lake Michigan;
Cairo is 290 feet above the ocean's level. those on the right the number of miles
The water in Lake Michigan is 295 high- from that city:
er, or 585 feet above the ocean. The FEET. MILl S.
following table shows that Springfield is Joliet, below... 41 38
48 feet higher than the lake, or 633 feet Elwood, above.......... 78 46
above the ocean's level. The average Wilmington, below.... 21 53
level of the State is probably from 650 Braidwood, above.......23 58
to 700 feet above the ocean. Braceville, " 21 61
"The country is quite broken in the Gardner, ".......... 23 65
lead regions, and the hills are higher Dwight,.. 71 74
than in any other portion of the State, Oell, "..........144 82
reaching an altitude, between Freeport Cayuga ".. 121 87
and Galena, where the elevations are lo- Pontiac, ".. 86 92
cally known as the Mounds, of from Ocoya,.. 109 97
eight hundred and fifty to nine hundred Chenoa,.........153 103
feet above the level of the river at Cairo; Lexington, "........196 111
and from five hundred and twenty-five TOWANDA,'.. 228 119
to five hundred and seventy-five feet Bloomington (Western station)223 126
above the level of Lake Michigan; and Shirley, above....188 133
from eleven hundred to eleven hundred Funk's Grove, "...148 137
and fifty above the ocean's level; and McLean,.........148 141
from two hundred to two hundred and Atlanta, ".. 162 147
fifty feet above the surrounding country." Lawn Dale, ".......... 43 150
Take the map and follow the line of Lincoln, ".. 31 157
the Chicago and St. Louis railroad. Jo- Broadwell, 29 164
liet is in the valley of the Desplaines Elkhart,.. 35 168
river; Wilmington at the crossing of the Williamville,.....45 174
Kankakee; Pontiac at the crossing of
SPRINGFIELD,"............ 48 185
the Vermillion, and Alton is a descent
from the table land, to the margin of the Chatham, "......... 60 194
Auburn, "..........84 200
Mississippi river. rn, ".........109 206
The table lands between those riveis irden, 4 109 206
are the highest points. South and west Giarlinville,.. 78 210
from Chicago the country rises from 150 ".......... 80 2SS
to 300 feet within the first hundred htn, ".......... 12 245
miles. Notwithstanding this, almost Mtill,.......... 251
everybody says they are going up to Chi- Al below.. 112 257
Alton, below......1... 112 257
cago; probably because it is very proper St. Louis,..........- 280
for a man to consider himself gone up
when he arrives there.