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 .. . nt passage. About thirty miles farther,it descends one hundred and forty feet in the course of eight or ten miles,to the level of tide-water, which it meets at Georgetown. It is here aquarter of a mile
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 .. . nt passage. About thirty miles farther,it descends one hundred and forty feet in the course of eight or ten miles,to the level of tide-water, which it meets at Georgetown. It is here aquarter of a mile wdde ; but expands to a mile opposite Washington, andenters the Chesapeak bay by a passage seven and a half miles is one of the most important of the Atlantic rivers. It is navigablefor vessels of any burden to Alexandria, one hundred miles distant; andfrom thence, for ships of considerable burden, to Georgetown. A locknavigation has been constructed round the first falls, of which there arefour in the whole. The largest of these falls is at Matilda, six miles aboveGeorgetown, where the stream, nine hundred feet broad, after flowing 5S BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES. ihrnurrh a valley skirled with hills wild as those of the Rhone in Vivori.(saysVolncY.) falls at once, like the Niagara, from the height of seventy-seven feet, into a deep chasm of solid micaceous granite. From this u. of the Poloiiiac through Iho Bluo Riilgc. escapes, several miles farther down, by a widening of the valley in thelower conntry. The whole coarse of the Potomac is three hundred andforty York River is formed by the junction of the Mattapony and the junction, the Mattapony is navigable for seventy miles ; andthirty mils higher up is its source in the Blue Mountains. The Painunkyis formed by the junction of the North and Sovth Aiina rivers, which risein the north-west about fifty miles distant. The mouth of this river isihrco miles wide ; and at high tide there i
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