A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . s not good 1 What dost thou say tothis, father 1 When we take into view the extentof the territory of this state, with itsvariety of surface and soil—the number,directions, and navigable character ofits streams, and the favorable nature ofthe climate—we can not but anticipate arapid increase in population and circumstances indeed exist,but not gieater than in many older statesin its neighborhood, which have made,and are still making, great advances. Early and due attention to publiceducation and moral improvement, ca
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . s not good 1 What dost thou say tothis, father 1 When we take into view the extentof the territory of this state, with itsvariety of surface and soil—the number,directions, and navigable character ofits streams, and the favorable nature ofthe climate—we can not but anticipate arapid increase in population and circumstances indeed exist,but not gieater than in many older statesin its neighborhood, which have made,and are still making, great advances. Early and due attention to publiceducation and moral improvement, canhardly be overlooked by the intelligent,virtuous, and public-spirited inhabitantsof Arkansas ; and here, as elsewhere,they will prove the most solid founda-tions of permanent prosperity. Withso many sad warnings as are here pre-sented, on the one hand, of the dangersof delay, and, on the other, the nobleexamples set by some other states, theAmericans have enough to show them in what their great strength lieth. DESCRIPTION OF THK 8TATK OF TENNESSEE. This state is bounded noitliby Kentucky, n()rtl)e;ist l)y Vir-ginia, east by Nurtli Carolina,southeast by Georgia, southwestby Mississippi, west by ihe Mis-sissippi river, which separates itfrom Arkansas, and northwestliy Missouri. The main Appa-lacliian j-idge forms the boundaryline for one hundred and sixty-eight miles, from the south bor-der of Virginia to Macon county ;and the entire outline is 1,171miles. It is between 35^ and iiooi^/ 1 • ?> ^ 36° 7 north latitude, and 4° 39 Hud 130 14 t longitude from Washington. The longest straight line that can be drawn m thus state, is from the northeast to the southwest cr,n,er-south sev-enty-seven by calculation-almost five hundred miles. The mean lengthof the state is four hundred miles ; the mean breadth, one hundred and f ,urteen •and the mean area, forty-five thousand six hundred, or above twenty-nine millionsot squaie acres. This state is divided i
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