Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . 0 miles inwidth, but it diminishes in breadth in the more northerly Pacific slope, comprising the country west of the SierraNevada, includes California and the best and most fertile portionof Oregon and Washington Territory. Like the Atlantic coast itis, for The most part, heavily timbered. Rivers, Lakes, and Bays.—The rivets of the United States areof prodigious magnitude and importance. Of those flowing southana east, the princi
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . 0 miles inwidth, but it diminishes in breadth in the more northerly Pacific slope, comprising the country west of the SierraNevada, includes California and the best and most fertile portionof Oregon and Washington Territory. Like the Atlantic coast itis, for The most part, heavily timbered. Rivers, Lakes, and Bays.—The rivets of the United States areof prodigious magnitude and importance. Of those flowing southana east, the principal are the Mississippi and Missouri, which,with their tributaries, the Ohio, Arkansas, and Red River, give tothe interior of the United States an extent of inland navigation,and a facility of communication unequaled, perhaps, and certainlvnot surpassed, in any other country. The Alabama and Appa-Jachieola flow, like the Mississippi, into the Gulf of Mexico; theAlatamaha, Savannah. Roanoke, Potomac, Susquehanna,Delaware,Hudson, Connecticut, and Penobscot, into the Atlantic; and theOswego, Cuyahoga, and Maumee, into the great lakes of the St. J. CAPT JOHN the original in his General His-toric Ivlition of IU2J). <% SO PRESIDENTS. SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. Lawrence basin. Of the rivers which have their sources west ofthe ridge of the Rocky Mountains, and their embouchure in thePacific, or in some of its arms, the principal are the Columbia,which falls into the Pacific ; the San Joaquin and Sacramento,which fall into the great Bay of San Francisco, and the Colorado,which, with its tributaries, after draining a vast extent of country,falls into the Gulf of California. Next to the great lakes Superior and Michigan, in the basin ofthe St. Lawrence, the largest lake within the limit of the UnitedStates is the Great Salt Lake, in the Territory of Utah, in about•ildeg. north latitude, and 113 west longitude. Lake Champlain,between Xew York and Vermont, is also of considerab
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