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Title: The New York Tribune's history of the United States, from the discovery of America until the present time, with a pocket atlas of the world, containing colored maps of each state and territory in the United States, with statistics showing products and resources of the various states; also, maps of every country in the world
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hassard, John R. G. (John Rose Greene), 1836-1888
Subjects: Atlases
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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cotton goods, $21,104,200 ; woolen goodi,$7,907,452 ; f ewing machines and attachments, $6,490,650. Ranksfirst in clocks, third in silk goods, fourth m cotton goodB,eighth in tobacco. „.„ ,^^o 4.- l>opnlation, 622,700: male, 305,782; female, 316,918; native,492,708; foreign, 129.992 ; white, 610,769; colored, 11,547; Chinese,123 ; Japanese, 6 ; Indians, 255. . State elections, annual, at same date as congressional and prea-idential ; number Senators, 24; Representatives, 249; meetingof legislature, Wednesday after first Monday m January; limit,none; term of Senators, 2 years ; of Representatives, 1 year. Number electoral voles, 6 ; number voters, 177,291. Convictsand those unable to read are excluded from voting. . Number colleges, 3, having about 160,000 volumes In libraries ;Yale College, at New Haven, founded, 1701. School age, 4-16. Legal interest rate, 6 ; no penalty for usury, but more than 0 percent, can not be collected by law. ATLAS OF THE WORLD. 91 MAP OF CONNECTICUT.
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92 ATLAS OF THE WORLD. NEW Y UKK^. Empire or Excelsior State. One of the thirteen original States; naraed in honor of the Duk©of York, to whom the patent was granted; first settled by Dutch,on Manhattan Island, 1614. Area, 49,170 square miles; extreme length, east and west, 412miles; extreme breadth, 311 miles; two-thirds of boundaries formedby navigable rivers; total water frontage, 880 miles. Numbercounties, (50. Temperature at Albany: winter, 22° to 36°; summer,67° to 73°. Rainfall at Buffalo, 34 inches, and at Penn Yan, 28 inches. New York City, chief commercial point of United States, rank-ing Ist in exports and imports; pop., 1,206.299,—greater by nearlythree-fifths than that of the Territories. Brooklyn is 2d in size;pop., 566,663. Buffalo, Queen City of the Lakes, is, next to Chi-cago, most important fphippiug point for grain on the lakes; pop.,155,134. Rochester, noted for manufactures and extensive nurseries;pop., 89,366. Syracuse has extensive salt works; pop., 51,79

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