William Winterbotham
Published: 2017-10-30
Total Pages: 502
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Excerpt from An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Vol. 2 of 4 Philadelphia; and is bounded north bv lower-canada; call, by the province of new-brunlwrck, and the Atlantic Ocean lourh. By the lame ocean, and Long-land lound well, bv the State of new-york. It lies In the form of a quarter of a circle. Its welt line, beginning at the mouth of Byram river, which empties n.to Long-land lound at the (truth-well corner of Con ncflicut, lat. 41 degrees, runs a little call of north, until it ilr'ikes the 45th degree of latitude, and then curves to the call: ward almofl to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Its clrmate is very healthful, as is evinced bv the longevity of the inhabitants; for it is eflimated that about one In leven of them live to the age of feventv vears and about one in thirteen or fourteen to eightv Years and upwards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.