A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . confluents,into chasms from an elevation of four hundred feet to nearly the level oithe streams. On the higher parts of the valley, the banks of the river riseby bold acclivities which wear almost a mountainous aspect. This bold-ness of outline imperceptibly sof
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . confluents,into chasms from an elevation of four hundred feet to nearly the level oithe streams. On the higher parts of the valley, the banks of the river riseby bold acclivities which wear almost a mountainous aspect. This bold-ness of outline imperceptibly softens in descending the Ohio, and on PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 29 approaching the Mississippi, an extent of level woodland bounds the hori-zon. Ascending the rivers of the south-east slope, the scenery becomesmore and more rugged, until it terminates in the ridges of the Apalachianchains : if the rivers of the north-west slope are followed, on the contrary,we rind the landscape broken and varied near the Ohio, but around theirsources flat and monotonous. The Valley of the Hudson varies extremely in its width, being in someplaces contracted to the immediate neighborhood of the stream; in othersextending forty miles. On the borders of the river the land is generallyelevated. The Mohawk is bordered by two long ranges of hills, presenting. Valley of the Mohawk. little variety of aspect. In the early part of its course it flows throughextensive flats. The valleys of the Susquehanna and its branches areremarkably irregular. These streams traverse the whole width of theApalachian chain of mountains, sometimes flowing in wide valleys betweenparallel ranges for fifty or sixty miles in a direct course, and at other timesbreaking through the mountain ridges. The valleys between the differentranges of the great chain extending throughout Pennsylvania are oftentwenty or thirty miles in width with a hilly or broken surface. The only large valley in North Carolina lies between the Blue Ridge,and a p
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