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They are susceptible of high
cultivation, and are fast becoming settled. They abound in Ohio,
Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana. They labour under the disadvantages
of a scarcity of wood and water,--evils of a serious character, until
art has had time to supply the deficiencies of nature. As coal is said
to abound in all that region, and wells are generally successful, the
enterprise of the emigrants is gradually prevailing against these
difficulties.
The second description of these natural meadows lies west of the
Mississippi, at a distance of a few hundred miles from that river, and
is called the Great Prairies. They resemble the steppes of Tartary
more than any other known portion of Christendom; being, in fact, a
vast country, incapable of sustaining a dense population, in the
absence of the two great necessaries already named. Rivers abound, it
is true; but this region is nearly destitute of brooks and the smaller
water courses, which tend so much to comfort and fertility.
The origin and date of the Great American Prairies form one of natures
most majestic mysteries.


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