near the junction of the Kankakee and Des Plaines.

In this State, there are no _civil_ divisions into townships as in Ohio,
Indiana, &c. The township tracts of six miles square, in the public
surveys, relate exclusively to the land system. The State is divided
into _three_ districts to elect representatives to Congress, and into
_six_ circuits for judicial purposes.

TABULAR VIEW OF THE COUNTIES.

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| | | | | |Distance &
|Date of |Square|Votes |Population|SEATS OF |bearing from
COUNTIES. |formation.|miles.|in 1834.| 1835. |JUSTICE. |Vandalia.
------------+----------+------+--------+----------+--------------+-----------------
Adams, | 1825 | 820 | 728 | 7042 |Quincy, |175 _n. w._
Alexander, | 1819 | 375 | 249 | 2050 |Unity, |135 _s._
Bond, | 1817 | 360 | 519 | 3580 |Greenville, | 19 _w. s. w._
Calhoun, | 1825 | 260 | 151 | 1091 |Gilhead, |134 _w. n. w._
Champaign, | 1833 | 864 | 102 | 1045 |Urbanna, |103 _n. n. e._
Clark, | 1819 | 500 | 451 | 3413 |Darwin,[A] or | 82 _e. n. e._
| | | | | Marshall, |
Clay, | 1824 | 620 | 172 | 1648 |Maysville, | 50 _s. e._
Clinton, | 1824 | 500 | 414 | 2648 |Carlyle, | 28 _s. s. w._
Crawford, | 1816 | 378 | 519 | 3540 |Palestine, |100 _e._
Coles, | 1830 | 1248 | 680 | 5125 |Charleston, | 75 _n. e._
Cook, | 1830 | [B] | 528 | 9826 |Chicago, |268 _n. n. e._
Edgar, | 1823 | 648 | 788 | 6668 |Paris, |100 _n. e._
Edwards, | 1814 | 200 | 239 | 2006 |Albion, | 96 _s. e._
Effingham, | 1831 | 486 | 129 | 1055 |Ewington, | 29 _e. n. e._
Fayette, | 1821 | 684 | 665 | 3638 |VANDALIA, |
Franklin, | 1818 | 850 | 759 | 5551 |Frankfort, | 83 _s._
Fulton, | 1825 | 590 | 607 | 5917 |Lewistown, |135 _n. n. w._
Gallatin, | 1812 | 828 | 1312 | 8660 |Equality, |100 _s. s. e._
Greene, | 1821 | 912 | 1360 | 12274 |Carrollton, | 90 _w. n. w._
Hamilton, | 1821 | 378 | 460 | 2877 |McLeansboro', | 76 _s.