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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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kled over every part of the terri-tory; and steam laboring with all itspower to bear rich freights over the landand the water! There are 83 counties, 784 town-plats, 1010 postoffices, 5 incorporatedcities, 45 chartered railroad companies,about 30 canal companies, 30 bankingcompanies, 20 colleges and principalseminaries, an asylum for lunatics, onefor the deaf and dumb and au«jther forthe blind, and a complete system of com-mon schools. What is, perhaps, ofequal importance, Sunday-schools areuniversally established, as in most otherparts of our country, every week, andoften every day, bringing the minds ofthe old and the young to the mutualstudy of the word of God, and practi-cally training the people to the obser-vance of the Sabbath, its occupation inwork appropriate to its institution, andtraining the people to the impintanduty of teaching, under circumstancesmost favorable to its success. The population in 1790 was about3,000; in 1840,1,519,467, above 50,000per cent. ilSlillli:!;.
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sisSiii iijiim.iii iijiiii;i!iii:iitoii3iiiiiHfliai:iii;M»»iiia..;ii:a 496 DESCH-IPTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO. The Connecticut Reserve is one of themost flourishing parts of the state. Itcontains the seven northeastern counties,120 miles east and west, and 52 northand south, with four miUions of acres,and was settled chiefly from Connecticutand Massachusetts. A striking view of the rapid and solidgrowth of Ohio is presented by the fol-lowing statistics:— The first permanent settlement wasmade in 1788, and the following areamong the returns made to the legisla-ture forty years afterward, in 1836 :Land for taxation, 16,460,029 acres;value of the above, exclusive of townproperty, $55,242,254; value of the townproperty, excepted, $16,906,854; houses,280,562; cattle, 402,376; merchantscapital, $8,899,994; pleasure-carriages,2,986. The taxes on the above, forstate, county, town, and road puiposes,were $995,376. The revenue of thestate that year, $301,057. As early as1837, there were 450

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