A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . ics of ancient greatness, built by injustice and consecrated to ambition, are now flittingshadows before us, starting up from behind the broken pillars and falling columns that werereared to perpetuate the genius by which they were Avrought. With such views, the following descriptions of the several states and territories havebeen written. We shall indeed feel doubly rewarded, if this brief sketch of our greatwestern republic should increase the attachment of our
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . ics of ancient greatness, built by injustice and consecrated to ambition, are now flittingshadows before us, starting up from behind the broken pillars and falling columns that werereared to perpetuate the genius by which they were Avrought. With such views, the following descriptions of the several states and territories havebeen written. We shall indeed feel doubly rewarded, if this brief sketch of our greatwestern republic should increase the attachment of our readers to those great principles ofequal rights, intelligence, virtue, and peace, in which were laid the foundation of our in-stitutions. In the foUoAving pages will be found facts displaying the good principles, soundjudgment, and genuine patriotism, of our ancestors, and others of later date, which provethat they have not a few worthy successors. It is an interesting reflection, that each oneis a member of this great commonwealth, and that no one is too weak or humble to do something for the public good. S. Nov., MAINE. Antiquities page 15 Area of the State 13 Augusta 18 Bangor 20, 22 First Settlement of 22 Theological Seminary at 22 Bath 23 Bowdoin College, History of 18 Breakneck Hill 19 Castine 23 Eastport 20 Exports 14 Fryeburgh 23 Hallowell 18 History 15 Houlton 23 Katahdin Mountain 13, 22 Lovells Expedition 23 Lovells Pond 23 Lower Stillwater ViUage 23 Lumber Business 14, 20 Moose Island 20 Moosehead Lake 24 Mount Desert Island and Lighthouse 24 Newspaper, first published in Maine 17 North Bangor 23 Pegipseot Falls 16 Population 24 Portland 17 Burnt in the Revolution 18 Quebec, Expedition for the Capture of 16 Rivers 13 Sebago Lake 24 Settlement first attempted on the Connecticut 15 Soil 14 Temperance Law 24 Topography 13 Trade, Ports and Places of 14 Welles 17 York 17 NEW HAMPSHIRE. Area of the State 26 Bartlett 36 Bellows Falls 30 Boundaries 25 Canterbury
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