The American Geography: Or, a View of the Present Situation of the United States of America: Containing Astronomical Geography.--geographical Definitions, Discovery, and General Description ... with a Particular Description of Kentucky, the Western Territory, and Vermont ... to which is Added, an Abridgement of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French and Dutch Dominions in America and the West Indies.--of Europe, Asia, and Africa |
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... ground on the bank of a naviga- ble river , upon which they marked out a town , and from the Indian name of the river which paffed by it , called it Savannah . From this period we may date the fettlement of GEORGIA . 1754. ] Kentucky ...
... ground on the bank of a naviga- ble river , upon which they marked out a town , and from the Indian name of the river which paffed by it , called it Savannah . From this period we may date the fettlement of GEORGIA . 1754. ] Kentucky ...
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... ground . The water is pure and tranfparent , and appears generally , throughout the lake , to lie upon a bed of huge rocks . It is worthy of remark , in regard to the waters of this lake , that although their surface , during the heat ...
... ground . The water is pure and tranfparent , and appears generally , throughout the lake , to lie upon a bed of huge rocks . It is worthy of remark , in regard to the waters of this lake , that although their surface , during the heat ...
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... ground on the fouth fide rifes very gradually . At Fort Pitt the river Ohio lofes its name , branching into the Monon- gahela and Allegany . The Monongahela is four hundred yards wide at its mouth . From thence is twelve or fifteen ...
... ground on the fouth fide rifes very gradually . At Fort Pitt the river Ohio lofes its name , branching into the Monon- gahela and Allegany . The Monongahela is four hundred yards wide at its mouth . From thence is twelve or fifteen ...
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... ground , logs , branches , and leaves of trees ; and the whole bank , from bottom to top , ap- pears freaked with ... grounds are con- ftantly filling up ; and that the land in many places annually infringes up- on the ocean . It is an ...
... ground , logs , branches , and leaves of trees ; and the whole bank , from bottom to top , ap- pears freaked with ... grounds are con- ftantly filling up ; and that the land in many places annually infringes up- on the ocean . It is an ...
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... ground . Inftances of this kind are fre- quent along the coaft . It is obfervable , likewife , that there is a gradual defcent of about eight hundred feet , by measurement , from the foot of the mountains to the fea board . This defcent ...
... ground . Inftances of this kind are fre- quent along the coaft . It is obfervable , likewife , that there is a gradual defcent of about eight hundred feet , by measurement , from the foot of the mountains to the fea board . This defcent ...
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Page 155 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 86 - ... be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 35 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 35 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
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Page 35 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
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Page 35 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie through the middle of said lake...
Page 366 - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from...