Our great continent; sketches, picturesque and historic: within and beyond the States . (1758.). T)TRECTLY west of North Carolina, and extending fromthat State to the Missisippi River, Hes Tennessee, oc-cupying an area of 42,050 square miles, and containingin 1880, a population of 1,542,359, of whom 403,151, in-cluding 352 Indians, were colored. The State liesbetween latitude 36° 30 north, and longitude 81° 37;and 90° 28 west. On its northern boundary are Kentucky and Virginia; onits southern borders are the States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia;.and beyond the Mississippi, on the west,


Our great continent; sketches, picturesque and historic: within and beyond the States . (1758.). T)TRECTLY west of North Carolina, and extending fromthat State to the Missisippi River, Hes Tennessee, oc-cupying an area of 42,050 square miles, and containingin 1880, a population of 1,542,359, of whom 403,151, in-cluding 352 Indians, were colored. The State liesbetween latitude 36° 30 north, and longitude 81° 37;and 90° 28 west. On its northern boundary are Kentucky and Virginia; onits southern borders are the States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia;.and beyond the Mississippi, on the west, are Arkansas and Missouri. The face of Tennessee may be properly divided, in aspect, into eightnatural divisions. On its eastern border are the Appalachian ranges, calledUnaca Mountains, covering an area of 2000 square miles, and rising, at onepoint, 5000 feet above the sea. On the west of this range is the fertile valley•of East Tennessee. Next lies the Cumberland table-land, a rocky plateau ofabout 1500 square miles, and an average height of 2000 feet above the sealevel. From the west


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