A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . e same region. Fromone of these, which had broken so as to leave a perpendicular face 180 feet in height, Lieu-tenant Abort, in the course of his topographical exploration in 1846, gathered a number ofsharks teeth, shells, and bones offish. The ruins of the singular structures left by the Aztecs,an ancient race, of common origin with tlie New Mexicans, once inhabiting several large dis-tricts in this territory, are also among the striking curiosities of the country. In tlieir wander-ings from a point near the centre of the present northern bound
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . e same region. Fromone of these, which had broken so as to leave a perpendicular face 180 feet in height, Lieu-tenant Abort, in the course of his topographical exploration in 1846, gathered a number ofsharks teeth, shells, and bones offish. The ruins of the singular structures left by the Aztecs,an ancient race, of common origin with tlie New Mexicans, once inhabiting several large dis-tricts in this territory, are also among the striking curiosities of the country. In tlieir wander-ings from a point near the centre of the present northern boundary, they left at different spotsmany ponderous memorials of their laborious skill, in the sliape of immense edifices, designedto serve, it is supposed, as fortified Iialiitations. Near the River Gila, in November, 1846,Captain Johnson, U. S. A., visited one of these ruins, called the Casa de Montezuma, pre-sumed to be many centuries old, an account of which is given in his journal, communicatedto the war department by General Kearney, in NEW YORK is the northernmost of what vrcre considered the Middle States at the estab-lishment of the American republic. The first approach to a settlement witliin its presentlimits, by civilized Europeans, was made in 1610, by a party under the auspices of a companyof Dutch merchants, who constructed a small fort on an island in the Hudson River, not fardistant from the site now occupied by the city of Albany. Another fort was erected by theDutch, in 1612, on York Island, the spot on which the city of York is built Tlio whole 110 UNITED STATES GAZETTEER, territory was then denominated New Amsterdam. In 1014, a body of English from Virginialook possession of it, which they soon after relinquished ; and the Dutch continued to hold ittlienceforward for about 50 years. During this period, their relations with the settlers inneighboring territories were not uniformly amicable, especially with those in New England. In1629 it was erected
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