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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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rry river from the west, which is formed bythe junction of Farmington and Poquabock rivers. AtHartford it meets the tide, and thence flows in a crookedchannel, into Long Island Sound. It is from 80 to 100rods wide, 130 miles from its mouth. A bar of sand considerably obstructs the navigation atits mouth, having only 10 feet water on it, at full tides. About 3 miles below Middleton, this river is only 40rods in breadth, running between two high mountains.Almost every where else the banks are low, and have fineextensive meadows. The Housatonic rises in Berkshire county in Massachu-setts. It passes through a number of pleasant towns,and empties into Long Island Sound, between Milfordand Stratford, which last name it bears from Naugatukriver, about 9 miles from its mouth. In this river, be-tween Salisbury and Canaan, in the N. W. corner of thisstate, is a cataract, where the whole breadth of the river,which is about 150 yards, falls about 60 feet perpendicu-lar, in one entire white sheet.
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the West Inaia island vtl»y ..ill. ( 44 ) CONNECTICUT. SITUATION AND EXTENT Miles100Greatest breadth 72 Greatest length 1001 L (41° & 42° 2 N. lat. J. between ; jo 50& 3°20E. L. Boundaries. Bounded north, by Massachusetts ;east, by Rhode Island ; south, by Long Island Sound;and west, by the state of New York. Civil Divisions. Connecticut is divided into eightcounties, viz : Hartford, New Haven, New London,Fairfield, Windham, Litchfield, Middlesex, and Tol-land- Rivers. The principal rivers in this state are Con-necticut, Housatonick^ the Thames, and their branches.The first, soon after it enters the bounds of Connecticut,passes over Enfield Falls. At Windsor, it receivesWindsor ferry river from the west, which is formed bythe junction of Farmington and Poquabock rivers. AtHartford it meets the tide, and thence flows in a crookedchannel, into Long Island Sound. It is from 80 to 100rods wide, 130 miles from its mouth. A bar of sand considerably obstructs the navigation atits

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