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AN

HISTORICAL

GEOGRAPHICAL, COMMERCIAL,

AND

PHILOSOPHICAL

VIEW

OF THE

AMERICAN UNITED STATES,

AND OF THE

EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS

IN

AMERICA AND THE WEST-INDIES.

BY

W. WINTER BOTHA M.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR; J. RIDGWAY, YORK-STREET;
H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER ROW;

AND D. HOLT, NEWARK.

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PRESENT SITUATION

OF THE

United States of America.

SOUTHERN

STATES.

THIS third, which is much the largest divifion of the United

States, comprehends

MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, NORTH-CAROLINA, TERRITORY S. of the OHIO, SOUTH-CAROLINA, and GEORGIA.

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This extenfive divifion is bounded on the north by Pennsylvania and the Ohio river; on the weft by the Miffiffippi; on the fouth by East and West Florida; and on the east by the Atlantic ocean and the Delaware State. It is interfected in a N. E. and S. W. direction by the range of Allegany mountains, which give rise to many noble rivers, which fall either into the Atlantic on the east, or the Miffiffippi on the weft. From the fea coaft, fixty, eighty, and in fome parts an hundred miles back towards the mountains, the country, generally fpeaking, is nearly a dead level, and a very large propor tion of it is covered, in its natural state, with pitch pines. In the neighbourhood of ftagnant waters, which abound in this level country, the inhabitants are fickly, but in the back, hilly and mountainous country, they are as healthy as in any part of America.

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