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GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE STATE.

males, 6-977; foreign, 1,015; colored, 10; persons convicted of
crime—natives, 2 ; paupers—natives, 80 ; foreign, 60 ; expense of
support, $ 14,560. Number of deaths for the year,—83 males, and
79 females; number died over 80 years of age, 7, or over 4 per
cent.; number died with disease of the lungs, 52, or over 32 per
cent, of all the deaths.

GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE STATE.

New-Hampshire is bounded north by Canada East, east by Maine,
south-east by the Atlantic Ocean and Massachusetts, south by
Massachusetts, and west and north-west by Vermont and Canada
East. It is situated between 42° 40' and 45° 16' north latitude,
and 70° 35' and 72° 27' longitude west from Greenwich, or 5° 30'
and 6° 15' longitude east from Washington. Its extreme length
running north and south is 168 miles. Greatest width, measuring
from the easternmost point in the town of Rye due west to the
Connecticut River, is 90 miles. North of latitude 43° it gradual-
ly decreases in width, and at its northern extremity is only 19
miles wide. The area is 9,280 square miles, or 5,939,200 acres, of
which about 100,000 are covered with water.

The State is divided into ten counties and 236 towns and cities,
besides several grants in Carroll, Grafton and Coos counties. Of
the towns three were incorporated in the reign of Charles I., one
during the reign of Charles II., two under William III., two un-
der Queene Anne, fifteen under George I., thirty-seven under
George II., 86 under George III., and 90 under State government.

The surface is diversified with mountains, hills, valleys and
plains, dotted with silver lakes and lined with sparkling streams.
The soil is varied, some being of the best quality, and some more
sterile and requirnig more cultivation, but the advantages of a home
market largely make up for some of its hard and rough soil, and
there are but few States in the Union, which produce larger crops
to the acre than New-Hampshire. Its mountain streams furnish
some of the best water power in the world, which has built up
manufacturing cities and large villages in every section of the