Carey's American pocket atlas ; containing twenty a brief description of each state, and of Louisiana: also, the census of the inhabitants of the United States, for 1801 and The exports from the United States for ten years . ( 25 ) DISTRICT OF MAINE, (BELONGING TO MASSACHUSETTS.) SITUATION AND EXTENT: 2401 f43° and 48°. N. lat. Breadth 377 J Between\4°. and 7°. 36E. long. Boundaries. Bounded, north, by Lower Canada,from which it is separated by the high lands; east, bythe river St. Croix, and a line drawn due north from itssource to the said high lands, which divides it
Carey's American pocket atlas ; containing twenty a brief description of each state, and of Louisiana: also, the census of the inhabitants of the United States, for 1801 and The exports from the United States for ten years . ( 25 ) DISTRICT OF MAINE, (BELONGING TO MASSACHUSETTS.) SITUATION AND EXTENT: 2401 f43° and 48°. N. lat. Breadth 377 J Between\4°. and 7°. 36E. long. Boundaries. Bounded, north, by Lower Canada,from which it is separated by the high lands; east, bythe river St. Croix, and a line drawn due north from itssource to the said high lands, which divides it from theBritish Province of New Brunswick ; south, by the At*lantic Ocean; west, by New Hampshire. Di visions. The District of Maine is divided into sixcounties, viz. York, Cumberland, Lincoln, Kennebeck,Hancock, and Washington, Face of the Country, Soil and Climate. TheDistrict of Maine, though an elevated tract of country,cannot be called mountainous. A great proportion of thelands are arable and exceedingly fertile, particularly be-tween Penobscot and Kennebeck rivers. On some partsof the sea-coast, the lands are but indifferent: but thisdefect might easily be remedied, by manuring it with amarine vegetable, called rock
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