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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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V. Biirker jctilp. ( ioi ) TENNESSEE. SITUATION AND EXTENT. Miles.Length 442 \ f 7°. 45 and 16° 56 W. Ion. Breadth 104 J Between \ 35 and 36° 30 N. lat. Boundaries. Bounded north, by Kentucky and partof Virginia ; east, by North Carolina; south, by SouthCarolina and Georgia; west, by the Mississippi River. Civil Divisions. This state is divided into 14 coun-ties, viz. Washington, Sullivan, Greene, Hawkins, Knox, Grain-ger, Robertson, Cooke, Jefferson, Sevier, Blount, David-son, Sumner, and Tennessee. Climate. The climate is temperate and healthy. Inthe tract lying between the Great Island, as it is called,and the Kanhawa in Virginia, the summers are remarka-bly cool, and the air rather moist. Along the rivers, andin the western part of the state, the climate is much warm-er, and the soil better adapted to the productions of thesouthern states. Rivers and mountains. The Tennessee river, calledalso the Cherokee, is the largest branch of the Ohio. Itrises in the mountains of V

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