. A gazetteer of the United States of America : comprising a concise general view of the United States, and particular descriptions of the several states, territories, counties, districts, cities, towns, villages, their mountains, valleys, islands, capes, bays, harbors, lakes, rivers, canals, railroads, &c. ; with the governments and literary and other public institutions of the country; also, its mineral springs, waterfalls, caves, beaches, and other fashionable resorts; to which are added valuable statistical tables, and a map of the United States . pors, the inhabitants are subject to those
. A gazetteer of the United States of America : comprising a concise general view of the United States, and particular descriptions of the several states, territories, counties, districts, cities, towns, villages, their mountains, valleys, islands, capes, bays, harbors, lakes, rivers, canals, railroads, &c. ; with the governments and literary and other public institutions of the country; also, its mineral springs, waterfalls, caves, beaches, and other fashionable resorts; to which are added valuable statistical tables, and a map of the United States . pors, the inhabitants are subject to thosepeculiar distempers always prevalent in such districts ; but even there, the range of disordersscarcely extends beyond fevers and agues. Curiosities. — The remains of ancient Indian villages, mounds, and fortifications, discov-erable in many counties of the state, constitute the most remarkable subjects of curiousinterest. Particular descriptions of these vestiges may be found in Howes Historical Col-lections of Ohio, a work of COO pages, octavo, full of minute detail, published at Cincinnati,in 1850. In the Scioto valley, within a compass of 12 to 15 miles around the city of Chili-cothe, these extraordinary monuments are very numerous. A map, showing their respectivepositions, and an ample and very able account of a series of explorations made in that region,and elsewhere in the valley of the Mississippi, by Messrs. Squier and Davis of Ohio, between1845 and 1847, may be found in the Transactions of the American Ethnological Society,vol. OREGON (Territory.) One of the recently-organized territories of the United States,embracing a vast region, extending from the Rocky Mountains on the east to the PacificOcean on the west. The Columbia River, its principal stream, was discovered in 1792, andnamed by Captain Gray, of ship Columbia, of Boston. Having penetrated the river for somedistance, and established the fact of its existence, the title by discovery belonged to theUnite
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