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Mf. Caleb Atwater, in his remarks on q Tour to Prairie du Cbien, has the following reflections and observations on the North Western Territory, and on that vast and de!ightii.! region, yet remaining to be settled, west of the present. inhabited portions ofthe United States.

 Were all the country south of Fox and Wisconsin rivers, having for it's eastern boundary Lake Michigan and and the Illinois river tots mouth, and the Mississippi for the western bounda- ry, thrown into a Territorial govern ment, it would, in few years, be- come respectable State. Nature seems to have intended that this coun- try should form State by itself; but man has determined otherwise.

 North of the Wisconsin and Fox riy- CTS, another State might be formed, on the east side of the Mississippi, which would be about as large as Virginia. On the west of the Mississippi, above 1 the State of Missouri, thereis territory sufficient for two States, each larger than Virginia. If the upper country should be formed into four States, they would eventually be the most populous and powerful States in the whole conle- deracy. Nature has intended that vast region for thirty millions of human be- ings at some not very remote period of time. For purity of air, and of water for mineral wealth, fertility of soil, healtmness of climate, and almost ev- cry other thing valuable to man, the whole country is equal to any portion of. the earth's surface.

 The future population of this vast re- zion, dwelling as they will, on the high est table land in the United States, can easily descend the water courses, eith- CT northwardly down Red river, to Hudson's Bay; or southwardly down the Mississippi to New-Orleans-east- wardly down our northern Lakes to New York, or down the St. Lawrence to Quebec. Nature has opened these roads to and from this region, and man is now using them. During the next hundred years, Ohio, as State, will take the lead in wealth and business, and in the number of her people, com pared with any State west of the Ale ghanies; but eventually Missouri, and any one ofthe States yet 10 be formed on the upper Mississippi, may surPass Us in numbers, wealth, and political pow CT. Should not one of these States l have referred to eventually become the most powerful, then Ohio must be at the very head of our confederacy for ever.

 Should our people never settle the country west of the Rocky Mountains, lthrough feel assured of row ol States on the Pacific equallng our At l Iantic ones within 2 century to come 1 yet there will be at no distant day, fer of States, north northwest

 west of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas