A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . a-way. The former is formed by the con-fluence of the Pequannock and the Ram-apo, which rise in New York. Most ofthe regions watered by the Passaic andits branches are rough and wild, abound-ing in mines, and in forests, which sup-ply fuel for reducing them. The failureof the latter, however, has been thechief cause of the abandonment of someof the mines. Standing at the source of the Passaic,amid the romantic and solitary scenerywhich surrounds him, a spectator m
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . a-way. The former is formed by the con-fluence of the Pequannock and the Ram-apo, which rise in New York. Most ofthe regions watered by the Passaic andits branches are rough and wild, abound-ing in mines, and in forests, which sup-ply fuel for reducing them. The failureof the latter, however, has been thechief cause of the abandonment of someof the mines. Standing at the source of the Passaic,amid the romantic and solitary scenerywhich surrounds him, a spectator mayreflect with interest on the peculiaritiesof the country through which it flows,and the various useful ends to which itswatei-s are applied, during its short butvaried course. It is not in vain that ithas its head at so considerable an eleva-tion above the ocean. In its short, butbusy career, it perfoTms an immenseamount of labor, in turning wheels whichmove a variety of machinery, whose prod-ucts are so valuable as to add matoriallyto the wealth of the state. DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 215 -VT.^,^-,^? .V=t-^. This state, one of the largest of tlieoriginal thirteen, lies between NewYork and Virginia, two of the othermost extensive of that number, withOhio on the west, the most populousand flourishing of the younger mem-bers of the Union ; while its easternboundary divides it from New Jersey,and it adjoins Maryland for a shortdistance on the southeast. Lake Erietouches it on the northwest. The Al-legany ranges divide it into two parts :forming three distinct, though une- • ;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! qual sections, counting the mountainous part as the central one. These mount-ains deviate considerably from their general line in the interior of Pennsylva-nia. They cross the boundary of Virginia with a course nearly northeast, soonincline northeasterly, and at length run for some distance eastwardly : thenstretching again more northwardly, cross th
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