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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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lvania is divided into thirty-se-ven counties, viz. Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware, Bucks,Montgomery, Lancaster, Dauphin, Berks, Northampton,Luzerne, York, Cumberland, Northumberland, Franklin,Bedford, Huntington, Mifflin, Westmoreland, Fayette,Washington, Alleghany, Wayne, Somerset, Lycoming,Centre, Armstrong, Greene, Beaver, Butler, Mercer,Venango, Erie, Warren, Adams, MKean, Indiana, andCrawford. Bay and Rivers. There are six considerable rivers,which, with their numerous branches, peninsulate thestate, viz. The Delaxoare, Schuylkill, Susquehannah,2~oughiogeny, Monongahela, and Alleghany, The bayand river Delaware are navigable from the sea to thegreat or lower falls at Trenton, 155 miles. The distanceof Philadelphia from the sea, is about 120 miles by theship channel of the Delaware. So far it is navigable fora 74 gun ship. Shallops go 35 miles farther, to Trenton falls. AtEaston it receives the Lehigh from the west, which isnavigable 30 miles. The Delaware river is navigable for
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TslenclJjui 7/ • BatfceP <f. r ee ) PENNSYLVANIA. SITUATION AND EXTENT: Miles. 0° 20 E. & 5° 20 W. Ion.39° 43 & 42° N. lat. Length 2611 „ f Breadth 1611 Between i Boundaries. Bounded east, by Delaware river, whichdivides it from New Jersey ; north by New York, and apart of Lake Erie ; west by the State of Ohio and a partof Virginia; south, by a part of Virginia, Maryland,and Delaware. Civil Divisions. Pennsylvania is divided into thirty-se-ven counties, viz. Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware, Bucks,Montgomery, Lancaster, Dauphin, Berks, Northampton,Luzerne, York, Cumberland, Northumberland, Franklin,Bedford, Huntington, Mifflin, Westmoreland, Fayette,Washington, Alleghany, Wayne, Somerset, Lycoming,Centre, Armstrong, Greene, Beaver, Butler, Mercer,Venango, Erie, Warren, Adams, MKean, Indiana, andCrawford. Bay and Rivers. There are six considerable rivers,which, with their numerous branches, peninsulate thestate, viz. The Delaware, Schuylkill, Susquehannah,

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