...Europe. Nay, one of the great British critics has recently informed us, that the Americans themselve* have not yet told their own Story well ; nor sufficiently...navigable rivers forms an ocean-chain around their borders, to bind them together ; while the most capacious waters, running at convenient distances,...

...number of the Federalist, says: It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories,...that one connected, fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence haa, in a particular manner blessed it with...

...instance, John Jay wrote that: It has often given me pleasure to observe, that Independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, wide spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. ... A succession of shifting...