Revenue. The average amount of state tax paid by each freeman is about 27 cents.

The amount, for three years, ending in 1807, collected in the district, was

For 1808, 1809, and 1810,

1,165,368 dollars. 618,772

Mr Greenleaf observes, that this province, were the attention of her inhabitants sufficiently directed to agriculture, must export large quantities of beef, pork, flax, corn, &c.; that her supply of timber, and materials for potash, is immense, and her resources for the fisheries almost inexhaustible; that, in the articles of prime necessity, in the establishments and manufactures of wool, cloth, nails, wood, hats, soap, tannery, and cordage, she has exceeded her proportion, when compared with the average of the United States.

Bridges. Across York river, situated at the distance of a mile from the sea, there is a wooden bridge 270 feet in length, supported by thirteen piers, which served as the model of other Ameri

can and some English bridges. It was constructed in 1761, by Major Samuel Sewall, a native of the town of York.

Roads.-1. The survey of a new road has been lately made, which is to extend from Hallowell, on the Kennebeck, across the highlands to the river Chaudiere, a distance of more than 200 miles. 2. Another road has been laid out from Bangor, on the Penobscot, to the river Chaudiere, a distance of about 200 miles, in a course north forty degrees west, passing through Brownsville, over a ridge of mountains, thence to the east of Moosehead Lake, and across the western branch of Penobscot river to St Joseph's church on the Chaudiere, forty miles from the city of Quebec, to which there is a good road. The country from beyond the ridge of mountains to that river is generally level. 3. Another road has been surveyed, from the river Penobscot to a new settlement on St John's river, in the north-east corner of Maine.

Works relating to the History of this District. One of the earliest accounts of this province is contained in A Voyage into New England, begun in 1623 and ended in 1624, by Christopher Levett, his Majesty's woodward of Somersetshire, and one of the council of New England. Lond. 1628.

1768. Hutchison's (lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts province) History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from the first Settlement in 1628 until its incorporation with the colony of Plymouth, province of Maine, by charter of William and Mary in 1691.

Sullivan's (James) History of Maine, with a Map of the District. Boston, 1795, 1 vol. in 8vo, pp. 420.

Morse's Geography, article Maine, 6th edition, 1812. Barker's (Dr Jeremiah) Account of Febrile Diseases in the County of Cumberland, inserted in the fifth volume of the Medical Repository of New York, p. 144.

Hazards' Collection of American State Papers, containing the charter of 1628, (1st vol. 239 ;) the Laws of the Ecclesiasti. cal Court, (1st vol. p. 488,) and other curious documents relating to the early state of this colony.

Greenleaf's (Moses) Statistical View of the District of Maine; more especially with reference to the value and importance of its interior. Addressed to the consideration of the legislators of Massachusetts. 1 vol. pp. 154. Boston, 1816. The Memorial of Mark Langdon and Others to the Legisla ture of Massachusetts, 1816.

An Act concerning the Separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts Proper, and forming the same into a separate and independent state; passed 19th June 1816.

CHAPTER IX.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

SITUATION AND EXTENT.-This state is situated between 42° 42′ and 45° 13' north latitude, and 4° 23′ and 6° 10' east longitude from Washington. The Atlantic Ocean washes eighteen miles of its coast, from which it extends to Lower Canada. Its length, from north to south, is 168 miles, and its greatest breadth, on the 43d parallel, is about 90; but it gradually decreases as it runs northerly, being only 55 miles on the fortyfourth degree of latitude, and at the northern extremity not more than 19. Boundaries.-North by Lower Canada; south by Massachusetts; east by the province of Maine and the Atlantic Ocean; west by Vermont. The area is about 9491 square miles, 6,074,240 acres, of which nearly 100,000 are covered with water.

*This name was given by Captain Mason, to whom, jointly with Captain Gorges, it was granted, in 1662. Then it was named Laconia. It is also mentioned in history under the name of Mason's Patent, and Piscataqua.

Aspect of the Country, and Nature of the Soil.The country, to the distance of twenty or thirty miles from the sea shore, is generally level; then rising gradually, it swells into hills; and lastly, into a chain called the " White Mountains," the highest parts of which are elevated 3000 feet above the level of the sea. The soil of the lower hills, vallies, and banks of the rivers, is very fertile, and produces excellent grain of every kind. The most valuable lands are along the borders of the large streams. These being annually overflowed, are enriched with a fat substance brought down from the hills, and there deposited. They are, notwithstanding, better calculated for pasture than tillage. The shores are sandy, but in some places produce large crops of what the natives call" salt hay," of which the cattle are very fond. In the town of Rye there are 150 acres of this description, formerly covered with fresh water, and, since the year 1719, regularly overflowed by the tide.

Mountains.-The first range of mountains, called the Blue Hills, traverse the country at the distance of about thirty miles from the shore. A ridge of the "White Mountains" passes from the western parts in a north-easterly direction, between the waters of the Connecticut and Merrimac rivers, the highest point of which, near the 44th parallel of latitude, distinguished by the name of " Mount Washington," was computed to rise about 5500