Our great continent; sketches, picturesque and historic: within and beyond the States . iti KY«. (1775.) One of the Central States of the Valley of the Mississippiis Kentucky, which embraces an area of 40,400 squaremiles, and a population, in 1880, of 1,648,690, of whom271,511, including fifty Indians, were colored. It liesbetween latitude 36° 30 and 39° 6 north, and longitude82° 3 and 89° 26 west. North and north-west of it arethe States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, from which it is separated by theOhio River. On the east are Virginia and West Virginia, on the south isTennessee, and on
Our great continent; sketches, picturesque and historic: within and beyond the States . iti KY«. (1775.) One of the Central States of the Valley of the Mississippiis Kentucky, which embraces an area of 40,400 squaremiles, and a population, in 1880, of 1,648,690, of whom271,511, including fifty Indians, were colored. It liesbetween latitude 36° 30 and 39° 6 north, and longitude82° 3 and 89° 26 west. North and north-west of it arethe States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, from which it is separated by theOhio River. On the east are Virginia and West Virginia, on the south isTennessee, and on its extreme south-western border is the Mississippi River,that separates it for about fifty miles from Missouri, It is extremely irregu-lar in shape. The surface of Kentucky presents two special aspectsâa mountaindistrict and table land. The former is in the east and south-east part of theState, and covers about 4000 square miles. The Cumberland Mountainsseparate it from Virginia. None of the ridges are very loftyânot one ex-ceeds 3000 feet. The two larger tributaries of the Ohio Riverâ
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