Excerpt from A Review of the Commerce, Manufactures, and the Public Private Improvements of Galesburg: Containing a Brief History of Knox College, and Sketches of the First Settlement of the Town Within these pages facts at once interesting and useful. It may be that much has been omitted that should have appeared, and much admitted that were better out; and, if so, this must be my excuse; siboe I con cluded to undertake this work 1 have been compelled to make a perilous journey by flood and land in search of a Press on which to print it - to edit a weekly paper, assist in getting ready to issue a Daily, and perform ing sundry other duties too tedious to mention. 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 technology 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.