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Title: Carey's American pocket atlas ; containing twenty maps... with a brief description of each state, and of Louisiana: also, the census of the inhabitants of the United States, for 1801 and The exports from the United States for ten years
Year: 1805 (1800s)
Authors: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839. cn
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Publisher: Philadelphia : M. Carey
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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eans, is under the jurisdiction of a governor, appointedby the president of the United States, with a council, andsecretary. The northern, or upper part, is called Louz*siana, and is subject to the controul of the governor ofIndiana Territory, who with the judges, are empoweredto m.ue and execute such laws as may be found necessa-ry for the due administration of justice. These two Ter-ritories are subdivided into districts, viz. Charles, LouisyGenevieve, Cape Girardeau, Nezv Madrid, and New Orleans. Face of the Country. For the distance of manymiles from the Mississippi, the country is flat, and sub-ject to the periodical inundations of that river, which be-gin early in June, and continue till the beginning of Au-gust. The water rises from forty to fifty feet above itsusual level, earning with it trees of prodigious size, andlarge masses of earth and rubbish from its banks. Northand westward of these extensive temporary seas, the highand mountainous country commences, being intermixed
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t 11S ) LOUISIANA, SITUATION AND EXTENT; Miles. lat.:nown W. Ion. Length 11201 _ f 29° and 45° N. Breadth unknown J / ween \ 13° and unknot Boundaries. Bounded east, by the Mississippi river,which divides it from the United States; south, by thegulf of Mexico, and New Mexico; \Vest and north, byundefined territories and boundaries. Civil Divisions. Louisiana is divided into two Ter-ritories, the upper, and the lower. The lower, called NewOrleans, is under the jurisdiction of a governor, appointedby the president of the United States, with a council, andsecretary. The northern, or upper part, is called Louz*siana, and is subject to the controul of the governor ofIndiana Territory, who with the judges, are empoweredto make and execute such laws as may be found necessa-ry lor the due administration of justice. These two Ter-ritories are subdivided into districts, viz. Charles, Louis,Genevieve, Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, and New Orleans. Face of the Country. For the distance of manymi

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