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... extends 120 miles ; Lake Ontario , 200 ; Niagara river , 40 ; and Lake Erie , 70 miles , The area , exclusive of islands , is 55,000 square miles . Aspect of the Country and Nature of the Soil . - The country , on the west side of the ...
... extends 120 miles ; Lake Ontario , 200 ; Niagara river , 40 ; and Lake Erie , 70 miles , The area , exclusive of islands , is 55,000 square miles . Aspect of the Country and Nature of the Soil . - The country , on the west side of the ...
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... extends from the ocean , over a space of five degrees of latitude , the climate is naturally colder near the northern extremity , but this effect is found to be modified by the influence of the great waters of the interior . The ...
... extends from the ocean , over a space of five degrees of latitude , the climate is naturally colder near the northern extremity , but this effect is found to be modified by the influence of the great waters of the interior . The ...
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... extend from bank to bank , 100 yards in width , forming a per- pendicular descent of thirty feet . At the distance of seventy miles from this outlet , the channel is obstructed by other rocks , called the Little Falls , of which the ...
... extend from bank to bank , 100 yards in width , forming a per- pendicular descent of thirty feet . At the distance of seventy miles from this outlet , the channel is obstructed by other rocks , called the Little Falls , of which the ...
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... extends from near the head of the Hudson river to the northern limits . The north - western borders are washed , in their whole extent , by the river St. Law- * So called from Samuel Champlain , who after founding the city of Que- bec ...
... extends from near the head of the Hudson river to the northern limits . The north - western borders are washed , in their whole extent , by the river St. Law- * So called from Samuel Champlain , who after founding the city of Que- bec ...
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... extended over the whole country in the year 1807 , and few persons escaped its attack . The dysentery is sometimes epidemical in the summer of years subject to great variations of temperature . Intermitting and remitting fevers are not ...
... extended over the whole country in the year 1807 , and few persons escaped its attack . The dysentery is sometimes epidemical in the summer of years subject to great variations of temperature . Intermitting and remitting fevers are not ...
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Page 115 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Page 248 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
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Page 248 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.
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