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N. B. In the column containing the number of inhabitants, the number marked (*) are as reckoned in the Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, excepting North-Carolina, Vermont, Weftern-Territory, and Kentucky; the others are taken from actual enumeration," The distances of the feveral capitals from Philadelphia are reckoned as the roads run.

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SITUATION and EXTENT.

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Boundaries.] IN the treaty of

31° and 46° North Latitude.

8° E. and 24° W. Long. from Philadelphia.

peace, concluded in 1783, the limits of

the United States are thus defined. "And that all difputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the faid United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and fhall be their boundaries, viz. From the northweft angle of Nova-Scotia, viz. That angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the fource of St, Croix River to the Highlands, along the faid Highlands, which divide thofe rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the north-westernmoft head of Connecticut river; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude; from thence by a line due weft on faid latitude, until it ftrikes the river Iroquois or Cataraquy; thence along the middle of the said river into Lake Ontario, through the middle of faid Lake, until it ftrikes the communication by water between the lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of faid communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of faid Lake Huron ; thence through the middle of faid lake to the water communication between that lake and Lake Superior; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Ifles Royal and Phillipeaux to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of faid Long Lake, and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods to the faid Lake of the Woods; thence through the faid lake to the moft northwestern point thereof, and from thence, on a due weft courfe, to the River Miffiffippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of faid River Miffiffippi, until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-firft degree of north latitude. South, by a line to be drawn due caft from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of thirty-one degrees north of the equator, to the middle of the River Apalachicola, or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint River; thence ftrait to the head of St. Mary's River; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's River to the Atlantic Occean; eaft, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy, to its fource; and from its fource directly north, to the aforefaid Highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Occean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence, comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the fhores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due eaft from the points where the aforefaid boundaries between Nova-Scotia on the one part, and Eaft-Florida on the other, shall refpectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Occean, excepting fuch Islands as now are or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova-Scotia.”

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The following calculations were made from actual measurement of the best maps, by THOMAS HUTCHINS, Efquire, geographer to the United States.

The territory of the United States contains by computation a million of square miles, in which are 640,000,000 of acres. 51,000,000

Deduct for water

Acres of land in the United States,

589,000,000

That part of the United States comprehended between the weft temporary line of Pennsylvania on the caft, the boundary line between Britain and the United States, extending from the river St. Croix to the northweft extremity of the Lake of the Woods on the north, the river Miffiffippi, to the mouth of the Ohio on the weft, and the river Ohio on the fouth to the aforementioned bounds of Pennsylvania, contains by computation about four hundred and eleven thousand square miles, in which are

Deduct for water

263,040,000 acres.
43,040,000

To be disposed of by order of Congress, 220,000,000 of acres. The whole of this immenfe extent. of unappropriated western territory, containing, as above ftated, 220,000,000 of acres, has been, by the ceffion of some of the original thirteen states, and by the treaty of peace, transferred to the federal government, and is pledged as a fund for finking the continental debt. It is in contemplation to divide it into new ftates, with republican conftitutions fimilar to the old states near the Atlantic Ocean.

·Eftimate of the number of acres of water, north and weftward of the river Ohio, within the territory of the United States.

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Eftimate of the number of acres of water within the Thirteen United States.

In Lake Erie, weltward of the line extended from the north-west corner of Pennsylvania, due north, to the boundary between the British territory and the United States,

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410,000

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