All the western states and territories . vation of 120 feet above the river, at the or-dinary iiead of steamboat navigation, 150 N. E. from Jackson, and,by the river, 480 miles from Mobile. It has about 4,000 , on the right bank of the Tombigbee, 25 miles from Col-umbus, is the center and shipping place for a fertile region. Canton is 25 miles N. from Jackson, on the line ef the railroad, andhas about 2,000 inhabitants. Yazoo City is a large shipping point for cotton on the Yazoo Elver,38 i94 Mississipn. 50 miles N. N. W. from Jackson. It is in a rich cotton district, andha
All the western states and territories . vation of 120 feet above the river, at the or-dinary iiead of steamboat navigation, 150 N. E. from Jackson, and,by the river, 480 miles from Mobile. It has about 4,000 , on the right bank of the Tombigbee, 25 miles from Col-umbus, is the center and shipping place for a fertile region. Canton is 25 miles N. from Jackson, on the line ef the railroad, andhas about 2,000 inhabitants. Yazoo City is a large shipping point for cotton on the Yazoo Elver,38 i94 Mississipn. 50 miles N. N. W. from Jackson. It is in a rich cotton district, andhas about 2,500 inhabitants. Jlolhj Springs, the capital of Marshall county, is on the line of theMississippi Central railroad, 210 miles north of Jackson, and has sev-ei-al educational institutions of fine repute, and about 4,000 inhabi-tants. The Lauderdale Springs, sulphur and chalybeate, are in liauderdalecounty, in the extreme northwestern corner of the state. CoopersWell, 12 miles west of Jackson, is noted for its mineral Outline view of the Observatoiy of the University of Mississippi. THE LYMAN COLONY IN MISSISSIPPL Phineas Lyman, a major .c;enernl in the French Canadian war, was one of thefirst of the Anglo Saxon race who attempted a settlement in the present limits ofMississippi. He was a native of Durham, Conn., a graduate of Yale College, adistinguished lawyer, and became commander of the Connecticut forces in visited England as the agent for an association, called the Military Adventur-ers, whose design was the colonization of a tract of country upon the sustaining a series of mortifications and delays from those in power, for morethan ten years, the grant upon the Mississippi was made, and he returned home in1773. In Dec, 1773, Gen. Lyman sailed from New England, in two vessels, for NewOrleans, accompanied by the following emigrants: Daniel and Roswell Magguetand Capt. Ladley, of Hartford; Thomas and James Lyman, of Durham; Hugh
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