A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . orth and perfect the numerous agricultural products for whichthe soil is so well adapted. With abundance of pure water, and a salubrious atmospherethrougliout the year, tlie people cannot but be favored with an uncommon measure of health. Religion. — There arc four beautiful church edifices in St. Paul, the capital, and severalothers in the towns of St. Anthony Falls and Stillwater. The several denominations ofChristians consist of such as are usually found in the New England States. Population. — The inhabitants of this territory, at the census
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . orth and perfect the numerous agricultural products for whichthe soil is so well adapted. With abundance of pure water, and a salubrious atmospherethrougliout the year, tlie people cannot but be favored with an uncommon measure of health. Religion. — There arc four beautiful church edifices in St. Paul, the capital, and severalothers in the towns of St. Anthony Falls and Stillwater. The several denominations ofChristians consist of such as are usually found in the New England States. Population. — The inhabitants of this territory, at the census of 1850, numbered but6038, exclusive of Indians. But so desirable a country must soon attract towards it largereenforcements from the Northern and Eastern States. The tide of emigration, in fact, isalready turned, and is moving with so strong an impulse in that direction, that long before thenext decennial enumeration, Minnesota will no doubt liave acquired tlie complement of inhab-itants necessary to her admission as an independent MISSISSIPPI, one of the most southern states of the American Union, was formerlyincluded in the country claimed by France as a part of Louisiana. As early as 1716, a Frenchcolony settled on the spot now occupied by the city of Natchez, where they erected a fort;but in 1729, the inhabitants, together with those of two other settlements in the vicinity, wereexterminated by the neighboring Indian tribes, only three or four persons, out of 700, escapingthe general massacre. The territory, for many years thereafter, remained exclusively inpossession of the savages. In 1763, France ceded the whole territory east of the Mississi|)piRiver to Great Britain, the subjects of which power soon afterwards occupied and strengtli-ened the various posts, and began to settle around them. After several changes of proprie-torship, and much negotiation, during some 15 years prior to 1798, between England, Spain, STATES AND TEKRITOKIES. — MISSISSIPPI. 87 a
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