A book of the United StatesExhibiting 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, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . asrns from an elevation of four hundred feet to nearly the level oithe sln-aius. On the higher parts of the vsillcv, the banks of the river riseoy bold acclivities which Wf-ar almost a mountainous aspec
A book of the United StatesExhibiting 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, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . asrns from an elevation of four hundred feet to nearly the level oithe sln-aius. On the higher parts of the vsillcv, the banks of the river riseoy bold acclivities which Wf-ar almost a mountainous aspect. This l)oldness of outline imperceptibly softens in descending the Ohio, ami on PHASICAL GEOGRAPHY. 2\) the Mississippi, an extent of level woodland bounds tlie hori-zon. Asoeniling the rivers of the south-east slope, the scenery liecoinesmore and more rufj^ged, until it terminates in the ridjres of the Ap-ilachianchains : if the rivers of the north-west slope are followed, on the contrary,we tind the landscape broken and varied near the Ohio, but around theirsources flat and monotonous. The Vallry 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 Mahau-k is bordered by two long ranges of hills presenting. Valley of the JNIohawk. little variety of aspect. In the early part of its course it flows throughextensive flats. The valleys of the Sus([uehanna 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 diflerentranges of the great chain extending throughout Pennsylvania are oftentwenty or thirty miles in width with a hilly or broken surface. The only lar
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