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Excerpt from Drown's Record and Historical View of Peoria, From the Discovery by the French Jesuit Missionaries, in the Seventeenth Century, to the Present Time: Also, an Almanac for 1851, Calculated From the Latitude and Longitude of Peoria, Illinois, Latitude 40� 40' North, Long, 89� 40' West From the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; And 12� 40' West From the City of Washington
I am indebted to many of the public Officers of our city, as well as to the oldest inhabitants, for many favors and much valuable information. I deem it a gratify ing duty from me to the business portions of Peoria, to say a word with respect to the reception which they gave my former efforts to serve them in this way; but from the reasonable, charitable portion of the public, I have received every allowance for not having performed merely a stupendous difficulty, but even an utter impossibility. Of the insuperable difficulty of getting up such a work, many are aware; though still a greater number are not, neither can they be without trial.
With these remarks, and with the hope that this little Manual will receive sufficient patronage to remunerate me for the great labor and expense which has attended its publication, and induce its continuance hereafter, it is now submitted to the decision of the public, very respectfully, by the publisher.
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