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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
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of the low country of SouthCarolina. Many of the houses are elegant, and furnished with piazzas. It is muchthe largest town in the state, and was formerly the seat of government. It hasan extensive commerce : the shipping owned here in 1816, amounted to 36,473 tons;in 1820, to 28,403 tons. That dreadful distemper, the yellow fever, has made frequentravages in Charleston, but its effects have been chiefly confined to persons from morenorthern situations ; and the climate of the city is accounted healthy to the nativeinhabitants, more so than that of most other Atlantic towns in the southern states. Itssuperior salubrity attracts the planters from the surrounding country, and it is thefavourite resort of the wealthy from the West Indies. It affords much agreeablesociety, and is reckoned one of the gayest towns in the United States. Columbia, the seat of government, is regularly laid out on an elevated plain on tliebanks of the Congaree. Georgetown is on Winyaw Bay, near the mouth of the
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THE UNITED STATES. 551 Pedee, thirteen miles from the sea. It is well situated for trade, being in the neigh-bourhood of fertile lands, and connected by the Pedee and its branches with anextensive back country; but there is a bar at the mouth of Winyaw Bay whichprevents the entrance of vessels drawing more than eleven feet water. Beaufort is onan island, seventy-two miles south-west of Charleston. GEORGIAIs bounded on the north by Tennessee, on the north-east by South Carolina, on thesouth-east by the Atlantic, by Florida on the south, and by Alabama on the west. Itextends from longitude 80 50 to 86 6, and from latitude 30 30 to 35°. Lengthfrom north to south, 300 miles ; mean breadth, 203 ; and area 61,000 square miles. Georgia is divided by the hand of nature into three zones, with very distinctfeatmes. The lowest, and what may be called the tropical zone, rises by a veryslow acclivity from the Atlantic Ocean, commencing in a series of islands. Thisis, in its oceanic margin, a rece

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