. A gazetteer of the United States of America : comprising a concise general view of the United States, and particular descriptions of the several states, territories, counties, districts, cities, towns, villages, their mountains, valleys, islands, capes, bays, harbors, lakes, rivers, canals, railroads, &c. ; with the governments and literary and other public institutions of the country; also, its mineral springs, waterfalls, caves, beaches, and other fashionable resorts; to which are added valuable statistical tables, and a map of the United States . there must be, of course, many changes in
. A gazetteer of the United States of America : comprising a concise general view of the United States, and particular descriptions of the several states, territories, counties, districts, cities, towns, villages, their mountains, valleys, islands, capes, bays, harbors, lakes, rivers, canals, railroads, &c. ; with the governments and literary and other public institutions of the country; also, its mineral springs, waterfalls, caves, beaches, and other fashionable resorts; to which are added valuable statistical tables, and a map of the United States . there must be, of course, many changes in the affairs, and in the rela-tive numbers, of different communities and associations ; so that an attempt to furnish correctstatistical details in the premises must, at this time, be attended with much difficulty. * The following estimate, made in April, 18/51, is from a public journal printed at Sacramento : Inthe northern mines, or that scope of country lying north of San Francisco and Feather River, thepopulation is computed at 20,000; the Yuba, 40,000; Bear River, 4000; the American Fork, 50,000;in the southern mines, or that portion lying south of the American River, 80,000; Sacramento and SanJoaquin valleys and neighborhood, 65,000; the coast south of San Francisco, 20,000; — making anaggregate of 314,000. It is further estimated that the 100,000 miners have each labored 300 days duringthe preceding year, and have produced an average of 3£ dollars per diem; which gives a total of#100,000,000. STATES AND TERRITORIES. —CONNECTICUT. 35. CONNECTICUT is one of the original thirteen United States, and the most southern ofthat division of the country known as the New England States. The territory now constitutingthis state was granted to the Earl of Warwick, in 1630, by the Plymouth Company in England,and by him, in 1631, was assigned to a number of active Puritans, who were on the parlia-mentary side in the quarrel with Charles I. It was shortly afterwards settled, in part
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