. New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ... British resumed control and held ManhattanIsland until Nov. 25, 1783. Burgoynes surrender at Saratoga in October, 1777, wasthe first great success of the colonists. West Point was fortified 1777-78, and in1780 was nearly lost by the treason of Benedict Arnold. New York City was the seatof the colonial government until the Revolution, and the State capital from 1784 to 1797,when Albany was made the capital. It was also the seat of the United States govern-ment from 1785 to 1790. During the war of 1812-14 the border towns of New
. New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ... British resumed control and held ManhattanIsland until Nov. 25, 1783. Burgoynes surrender at Saratoga in October, 1777, wasthe first great success of the colonists. West Point was fortified 1777-78, and in1780 was nearly lost by the treason of Benedict Arnold. New York City was the seatof the colonial government until the Revolution, and the State capital from 1784 to 1797,when Albany was made the capital. It was also the seat of the United States govern-ment from 1785 to 1790. During the war of 1812-14 the border towns of New Yorkwere attacked by the British forces. The first State constitution was adopted in 1777,and was revised in 1801, 1821 and 1846, slavery being abolished in 1817. During thelate Civil war New York furnished 448,850 troops to the Federal armies. ropulatiOil.—Census of 1880 : Males, 2,505,322; Females, 2,577,549; Native,3,871,492; Foreign, 1,211,379; White, 5,016,022; Colored, 66,849, including 909 Chi-nese, 17 .lapanese, and 819 Indians. 32 STATE OF NEW TopO(/rapJitf.—New Jersey has an extreme length northand south of 157 miles; a breadth of from thirty-seven to sev-enty miles; and an area of 7,815 square miles, or 5,001,600 highest ground is found in the northwest, where the Bluemountains attain an elevation of from 1,000 to 1,750 feet. TheHighland range consists of a series of hills rising 300 to 600feet above their alternating valleys, and separated from theBlue mountains by the Kittatinny valley, which has a width ofabout ten miles. The elevation of this range is from 1,000 to1,400 feet above the sea. The Palisades of the Hudson, on the northeast, consist ofrough ridges of trap formation, never exceeding COO feet in height. The centre of theState is an undulating plain, and the southern division is low and level. The Hudsonforms part of the eastern border, and the Delaware river and bay the western. TheAtlantic coast line is 120 miles long, and the wat
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