Excerpt from A Brief Sketch of the Past, Present and Prospects of Vincennes These are the field results but t likely to be changed by a tenth of a second of arc by the final calculations. The City of Vincennes is located on the left bank of the Wabash River, on the western boundary of the State of Indiana, the river only separating it from the State of Illiis. It is distant 192 miles west of Cincinnati, Ohio, 150 miles East of St. Louis, Missouri, 236 miles South of Chicago, 51 miles rth of the Ohio River at Evansville, and 117 miles south west of Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana. The city is located on high ground beyond the possible reach of inundation, and is bounded on the rth east and south west by beautiful and fertile prairie lands, and on the south east and rth west by a picturesque range of hills, covered with forest trees, and presenting an attractive and pleasing landscape view. The location is peculiarly fortunate and safe, occupying as it does a level depression, surrounded on all sides by elevated grounds and hills, which protect it from the chilling blasts of winter, or the destructive storms of summer so prevalent and desolating in portions of the West. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.