The world: historical and actual . e for two and a half centuries. Thepopulation is still mainly Indian and language employed in legislative debate is theSpanish. Gradually the influx of miners and cat-tle-men from the North and East is Americanizingthe territory. The herding business is carried onupon a large scale, and very rich mines have beenso far developed as to establish their high climate varies widely. In the vicinity of SantaFe the great altitude renders the winters severe. Very little rain fallsin that region. TheApache Indians hin-der development l>\their c
The world: historical and actual . e for two and a half centuries. Thepopulation is still mainly Indian and language employed in legislative debate is theSpanish. Gradually the influx of miners and cat-tle-men from the North and East is Americanizingthe territory. The herding business is carried onupon a large scale, and very rich mines have beenso far developed as to establish their high climate varies widely. In the vicinity of SantaFe the great altitude renders the winters severe. Very little rain fallsin that region. TheApache Indians hin-der development l>\their cruel hostilities ;but the Pueblos are ajjeaceable and some-what civilized schoolsand have been de-cided by the courts tobe citizens of theUnited States. Theyare not disposed toavail themselves ofthe rights of citizens,preferring to adhereclosely to their tradi-tional tribal or villageform of Pueblos are less in the way of civilization, in that remote region,than are the Mexicans, called NEW YORK. New York is the Empire State of the Union, firstin population and wealth, but it is not much overone-third the size of New Mexico. It has a smallstrip of Canada on the north, but for the most part,its north and west boundaries are the St. LawrenceRiver and Lake Ontario with Lake Champlain. and 76 6l2 STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. the States of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Con-necticut along the east, and New Jersey andPennsylvania along the south. With the excep-tion of the John Brown tract of the Adirondacks thegreater part of the state is capable of and actuallyunder a high state of cultivation. In the northeastiron ore is found in paying quantities, and lumber-ing is conducted upon a large scale. It is a great dairying state. It has two col-leges dating back to the eighteenth century,Columbia, formerly Kings College, New YorkCity, 1754, and Union College, Schenectady, 1795;but it was not until Cornell University was estab-l
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