A book of the United States : exhibiting 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 ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . Weehawken. The Highlands of the Hudson, or Fishkill Mountains, which first appearabout forty miles from New York, are marked for their sublimity and. Highlands. grandeur, and interesting from their connection with many great eventsof the revolution. This chain i
A book of the United States : exhibiting 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 ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . Weehawken. The Highlands of the Hudson, or Fishkill Mountains, which first appearabout forty miles from New York, are marked for their sublimity and. Highlands. grandeur, and interesting from their connection with many great eventsof the revolution. This chain is sixteen miles in width, and extends twentymiles along both sides of the Hudson. The height of the principal has 20 BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES. been estimated at one thousand five hundred and sixty-five feet. ThePeruvian Mountains consist of a lofty tract in the northern part of NewYork, being round the sources of the Hudson, and separating the watersof Lake Champlain from those of the St. Lawrence. They received theirname from the supposition that they contained mineral treasures. Theirloftiest summit, called Whiteface, is about three thousand feet above thelevel of Lake Champlain. The Apalachian chain in Pennsylvania spreads to its widest limits, andcovers with its various ranges more than one half of the state. Thegreatest width of the chain equals two hundred miles. It consists of pa-rallel ridges sometimes little distant from each other, and at other timeswith valleys t
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