All the western states and territories . Northern vleio of Nashville. The view shows the app-^arance of XashviUe as it is entered u]ion tiie Tx) and Nashville the left is seen the suspension Ijridfje over Cumberland Jiivcr, with i)art of the steamboat laudingand the steam printing establishmeiit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The State House appearson Ihe extreme right. Nashville, city, port of entry, county seat for Davidson county, and cap-ital of the state of Tennessee, is situated on the left bank of CumberlandRiver, at the head of steamboat navigation, about
All the western states and territories . Northern vleio of Nashville. The view shows the app-^arance of XashviUe as it is entered u]ion tiie Tx) and Nashville the left is seen the suspension Ijridfje over Cumberland Jiivcr, with i)art of the steamboat laudingand the steam printing establishmeiit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The State House appearson Ihe extreme right. Nashville, city, port of entry, county seat for Davidson county, and cap-ital of the state of Tennessee, is situated on the left bank of CumberlandRiver, at the head of steamboat navigation, about 200 miles, following the ??The mountain district of , Xorth Carolina and Virginia conihine evpry chieffeature which adapts a country to the raising of sheep on a large scale. The warm andsheltered valleys where little snow ever falls, afford a winter home for the flocks, where lit-tle defense from storms and cold is required, and where mush of their food can be obtained 628 State Uovse of Teunessee, Nashville. The State House, a most noble ami maifiiificent structure, stanils on the highest Krournl of the citv, nnoIjuudred and seventy-five feet above the river. Its ilinieiisions are 240 liy 135 feet, and coBt about a millionof dollars. in the fields and woodlands ; while the hill slopes and mountain sides will afford preciselythe Ivind of pasture most conducive to the health of the animals and the excellence of thafleece. In such a climate, and in such circumstances, the finest and softest wools of thaworld are produced. In proof of this, it may be stated that at the Worlds Fair, in Lon-don, when all the world was engaged in competition, the wool which received the prize asthe best which the nations then could boast, was sheared from the flocks which had beenreared in this very region, on the hills of East Tennessee. Mark R. Cockrell, Esq., an ex-tensive wool grower of Tennessee, attended the Worlds Fair in London, in 1851, and pre-sented some of his vfo
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