Carey's American pocket atlas ; containing twenty a brief description of each state, and of Louisiana: also, the census of the inhabitants of the United States, for 1801 and The exports from the United States for ten years . rt course, soft banks, nume-rous shoals, are skirted with very extensive marshes, andempty into the river and bay of Delaware. In the south-ern and western parts of this state, spring the head watersof Pokomoke, Wicomico, Nanticoke, Choptank, Ches-ter, Sassafras, and Bohemia rivers, all emptying intoChesapeak bay. Some of them are navigable twentv orthirty miles
Carey's American pocket atlas ; containing twenty a brief description of each state, and of Louisiana: also, the census of the inhabitants of the United States, for 1801 and The exports from the United States for ten years . rt course, soft banks, nume-rous shoals, are skirted with very extensive marshes, andempty into the river and bay of Delaware. In the south-ern and western parts of this state, spring the head watersof Pokomoke, Wicomico, Nanticoke, Choptank, Ches-ter, Sassafras, and Bohemia rivers, all emptying intoChesapeak bay. Some of them are navigable twentv orthirty miles into the country for vessels of fifty or sixtytons. Face of the Country, Soil and Productions. Thestate of Delaware, ihe upper parts ol the < ounty of New-castle excepted, is, to speak generally, extremely lowand level. Large quantities of stagnant water, at par-ticular seasons of the year, overspreading a proportionof the land, render it equally unfit for the purposes ofagriculture, and injurious to the health of the inhabitants. The highest ridge of the peninsula runs through thisstate, and is designated in Kent and Sussex counties, bya chain of swampy ground, from which the waters de-scend on each side. DEL A WA R E Mikt. lana? TV. 7 Sjmm Ututen 4J ( 73 ) Delaware is chiefly an agricultural state. It includesa very fertile tract of country, than which scarcely anypart of the union can be found, in which a greater vari-ety of the most useful productions can be convenientlyand plentifully reared. The soil along the Delaware ri-ver, and from eight to ten miles into the interior country,is generally a rich clay, producing large timber, and welladapted to the various purposes of agriculture. Fromthence to the interior and swamps, the soil is light, sandy,and of an inferior quality. Wheat is the staple of thisstate. Besides which, it generally produces plentifulcrops of Indian corn, barley,rye,oats, flax, buckwheat, andpotatoes. It abounds in natural and artificial meadows,con
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