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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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usetts; south, by the Atlantic;west, by Connecticut. Those limits comprehend what iscalled Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Divisions. This state is divided into five counties,viz. Newport, Providence, Washington, Bristol, andKent. Bays and Islands. Narragamet Baif makes upfrom south to north, between the main land on the eastand west. It embosoms many fertile islands, the prin-cipal of which are Rhode Island, Canonnicut, Prudence,Patience, Hope, Dyers and Hog Islands. The harbours are Newport, Providence, Wickford,Patuxet, Warren, and Bristol. Rhode Inland, from which the State takes half itsname, is 15 miles in length ; its average breadth is about3 1-2 miles. It is divided into three townships, New-port, Portsmouth and Middletown. This island, inpoint of soil, climate, and situation, may probably beranked among the finest and most charming in the world. Travellers have named it the Eden of America.More than 30,000 sheep are fed on this island, besidesneat cattle and horses.
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C 3* RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. SITUATION J.VD EXTENT. Miles. 47 Breadth 37 J ccltt f 41° 22 and 42o N. lat. Length 47 1 1 3° 11 and 4o E. long. 37 ; Between J-41o ^ Boundaries. Bounded north and east, by the Com-monwealth or Massachusetts j south, by the Atlantic;west, by Connecticut. Those limits comprehend what iscalled Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Divisions. This state is divided into five counties,viz. Newport, Providence, Washington, Bristol, andKent. Bays and Islands. Norraganset Bat/ makes upfrom south to north, between the main land on the eastand west. It embosoms many fertile islands, the prin-cipal of which are Rhode Island, Canonnicut, Prudence,Patience, Hope, Dyers and Hog Islands. The harbours are Newport, Providence, Wickford,Patuxet, Warren, and Bristol. Rhode Llandy from which the state takes half itsname, is 15 miles in length ; its average breadth is about3 1-2 miles. It is divided into three townships, New-port, Portsmouth and Middletow

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