A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . navigation also,have been encouraged, developed, and become greatly successful. As yet, no state survey • See, however, fur tlic particulars, cither Dr. Williamss History, or the clear though brief exhibitionof all these transactions, consecutively, in T/io/npsons Vermont, Part II. t See Grahams Sketches. + See the Minutes of that Convention, printed at Windsor, where is established its Religious first newspaper in the state was published in 17S1. STATES AND TERRITORIES. —VIRGINIA. 153 of its geolo^ has been completed ; but the progr
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . navigation also,have been encouraged, developed, and become greatly successful. As yet, no state survey • See, however, fur tlic particulars, cither Dr. Williamss History, or the clear though brief exhibitionof all these transactions, consecutively, in T/io/npsons Vermont, Part II. t See Grahams Sketches. + See the Minutes of that Convention, printed at Windsor, where is established its Religious first newspaper in the state was published in 17S1. STATES AND TERRITORIES. —VIRGINIA. 153 of its geolo^ has been completed ; but the progress of its railroads, so vigorously prosecuted,and promising such advantages in bringing the riches of the west to the sea-coast, will doubt-less make apparent also, at an early period, the worth of such a measure. In 1842 began the celebration of Porefatliers Day ; * and that whatever was commendablein their character and spirit may, under the blessing of their and our God, flourish in thisnow thriving state, is our hearty wish and VIRGINIA is the northernmost, save one, of that division of the United States usuallydenominated the Southern Stales. It lies between lat. 30° 3-3 and 40° 43 north, and extendsfrom 75° 25 to 83° 40 of west longitude. Its length, from east to west, is 370 miles ; itsgreatest breadth 200; and its exact area is officially stated at 61,352 square mUes. f It isbounded on the north by Pennsylvania ; on tlie north-east by the River Potomac, which sepa-rates it from Maryland ; on the east by the waters of Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean;on the south by Nortli Carolina and a part of Tennessee ; on the west by Kentucky; and onthe north-west by Ohio. Having been the seat of the earliest English settlement permanently established in NorthAmerica, Virginia ranks as the eldest of the thirteen colonies originally compacted into therepublic of the United States; and is therefore worthy of the frequently-bostowed appellationof the Old Dominion
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