DESCRIPTIONS

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STATES AND TEBBITOBIES.

tgSgT The reader will please to observe that the statistical tables and other documents near the close of
the volume will be found to contain much additional information in regard to the several and combined
interests of the following confederated republics, denominated the United States of America.

These states and territories are alphabetically arranged.

ALABAMA ranks as the twenty-second state of the American Union. It was originally
settled by French and Spanish immigrants. In conjunction with Mississippi, it was set off
from Georgia, in 1800, as a separate territory; which again was divided in 1817, the western
portion forming the State of Mississippi, and the eastern the Territory of Alabama — now the
state of that name, having been so constituted by act of Congress in March, 1819.

Limits and Extent. — It is bounded by Tennessee on the north, Georgia on the east, Florida
and the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and Mississippi on the west. It extends from 30° 10' to
35° north latitude, and from 85° to 88° 30' west longitude; comprising an area of nearly

51,000 square miles.

Surface and Soil. — The face of the country exhibits much variety. In the northern quarter,
where the Alleghany Mountains terminate, it is elevated and somewhat broken, but gradually
improves in appearance and fertility as it descends towards the opposite boundary, where it
settles into wide-spreading prairies and gently-swelling plains, profusely covered with grass
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