Philadelphia, the capital, is the larges: city in the union, and one of the most beautiful in the universe; and with the most orderly police.... It stands on the west side of the Delaware, and on the east side of the Schuylkill, the distance being exactly two miles. Lancaster, the largest inland town in the union, is the seat of the state government. Pittsburgh, on the head of the Ohio, is a very flourishing place; the towns over the face of the state are numerous. Carlisle, Easton, Harrisburg, Germantown, Bethlehem, Northumberland, are flourishing towns. 2. Of Ohio?

A. This state, the latest which has been received into the union, commenced its national career in 1802, a convention having been held, and the necessary laws passed. It is bounded on the east by Pennsylvania, on the south, by the Ohio river, which separates it from Virginia and Kentucky; on the west, by a meredian line commencing at the mouth of the Great

Miami river, where it falls into the Ohio, to the southern end of Lake Michigan; and on the north, it is bounded by a line proceeding from the west point at Lake Michigan, due east to lake Erie. It appears that there was some mistake in the survey, and that Michigan extends further south than Erie, though laid down otherwise in the maps. All the countries to the north, west, and north west of this state, is now called Indiana.

The extent of this state is about 250 E. and W. by 200 broad; between 38 and 42 degrees north lat. from Philadelphia, 5 and 11 west. The country is uneven, hill and valley, with large plains in some parts; and is watered by numerous rivers....beside the lakes on which its north west and south west angles are situated, and the Ohio, which washes all its south side; the rivers are the Muskingum, Sciota, Beaver, Great and Little Miami, Miami of the lakes, Hockhoeing, Sandusky, Wabash, Cayuga. It is divided into eighteen counties, and its population encreases in an extraordinary degree.

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Chief towns Chilicothe, Marietta, Cincinnati, Steubenville, Kenhaway, a French settlement, Schoenbrun, a German Menonist settlement on the Muskingum.

This state in 1790 was occupied by the Shawanese, Wyandots and Lenapi, or Delaware Indians in 1802 was received as an independent

state, with upwards of 30,000 white inhabitants!

In this state are many remains of Indian antiquities, which embarrass enquiry....regular works in the manner of fortifications, some of them covering a mile in surface....indicating skill in the arts, much superior to any thing known among the aborigines of their times.

2. Of New Jersey?

A. This state has for its southern boundary the Delaware river and bay; its northern boundary the Atlantic and the Stund at New York and up Hudson's river, where a line measured south-west thence to the Delaware river divides it from New York. It is situated between 39 and 42 d. N. latitude, and 73. 75 W. of Greenwich; being about 160 miles long by 53 broad.

The country is unequal in fertility, and interspersed with mountains, and in some parts barren sands; the middle and northern parts are fertile, well watered, and hill and dale interspersed. The rivers are the Rariton, Hackinsac, and Passaic, and the Hudson and Delaware on its boundary lines. This state consists of thirteen counties of unequal extent and population: they are,

The seat of government is Trenton, on the Delaware, about midway between the greatest length of the state; besides which there are Newark, Princeton, Burlington, Bordentown, Elizabethtown, Brunswick, and Morristown, handsome towns, and several others.

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2. Of New York?

A. This state, which approaches a triangular form, with two of the sides curvated inward, is separated by an irregular, but measured-line, from Jersey and Pennsylvania; on the south by a line measured northward from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont; at the extreme north point by the boundary line of Lower Canada, till it intersects waters leading from Lake Ontario, and along the centre of that lake, to Niagara, where the line continues in a south direction into Lake Erie, where it ends, forming a rectangle with the Pennsylvania line; but exterior to this boundary Long Island lies along the shore of Connecticut, but forming a part of New York state, as does Staten Island in the bay of New York.

This state is in a very flourishing condition, and improvement encreasing; the river Hudson, which 'rises in the ridge of mountains that stretch along parrallel to lake Champlain, is one of the finest in the union, and navigable to AlThe bany, the seat of the state government. city of New York is the most commodious and flourishing port in the union.

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The extent of the state from the south to the Canada line, is about 350 miles, and the other two sides are about the same length, though varying in breadth near Lakes Erie and Ontario, and between Lakes Champlain and Ontario.

In the mountains called the Highlands, which are but a continuation of the great ridge which is visible along the continent, the rivers of this

state and some of those of Pennsylvania have their sources; among these are the Mohawk, Hoosac, Battenkill, Black river, &c. Beside Lake Champlain, there are several others in the state, as the Seneca in the Genessee country. The state is divided into thirty two counties:

A. This state is bounded on the east by Long Island sound, the other boundaries are artificial; the line east, which is also the boundary of Rhode Island, runs directly north from Narraganset, to a line that dividès it from Massachusetts, which runs from east to west till it intersects the line of New York. The extent of this state is not quite a degree north and south, the boundary between Massachusetts being the 42d degree, the extreme south-east point of the state is in 41; while the north-east is three-eighths of a degree narrower; its longitude little more; the eastern boundary about 44 miles long; the western 76; the southern 106, and the northern 80. The country is not so fertile as in the southern states, but the people are industrious and simple; there is much hill and dale, and the green mountains of Vermont are continued The rivers are the Connecticut,

into this state.