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Title: The history and topography of the United States of America
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Hinton, John Howard, 1791-1873
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Publisher: London and New York : J. Tallis and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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THE UNITED STATES. 483 CHAPTER II. NEW YORK NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA. NEW YORK.This extensive, populous, and flourishing state extends from latitude 40 30 to 45;and longitude 73 to 79 55. Length from Staten Island, the south-west point,315 miles, and from the south-west angle of Massachusetts along the line of northlatitude 42, 320 miles. The area is within a fraction of 46,500 square miles, and themean breadth nearly 110 miles. It is bounded on the north by Lower Canada,on the east by Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut, on the south-east by theAtlantic Ocean, on the south by New Jersey and Pennsylvania, on the west byPennsylvania, Lake Erie and the Niagara River, and on the north-west by LakeOntario and the River St. Lawrence. The south-eastern angle of the state, about forty miles above New York, is moun-tainous, being traversed by several ridges from New Jersey, one of which crosses theHudson at the Highlands. The Catskill mountains, in the counties of Ulster, Green,Albany, and

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