A gricul-
Rivers.
Patomak.
chards ace favourite objefts ; and cyder is a common beverage in the
northern and middle ftates', .The excellent Newtown apple grows, near
New York. Peaches are greatly cultivated in Virginia, where the
peach brandy is noted ; and there are alfo excellent apricots arid nectarines.
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The.- chief rivers of the United States have already been defcribed in
the brief general view of North America ; but a few maybe here mentioned
of a more confined courfe, and more particularly belonging-to
I he United territory. That great_weftern boundary the, ^ffiffipp^. be-
jfp^esi the.eelebrat^TjQhro, pervading the -centre o f^ h e .^ it e ^ ^ ito r y
from eaft to .weft," receives many other/iacpnfiderable ftf<;am§u |mong
vfrhich is the Illinqa, or in the French mode^linois, w£i$hjyatjp ex-
tenfive and fertile meadows. More. northern ftreams, flowing, into the
Mifliffippi are the Uifconfin, the Chipawy, and the r i^ r ft|h.-Croix.
The noble ftream of the Ohio receives from the north oR S ^ an d
Little Miami, and the Wabaffi: from the fou^h.t^e^iea^ennaway,
the-Kentucky, the Green River,J and above all the' Cpmbetland aJd tlie
Tennaffee.;-whilfe the country on the w,eft '(^Georgia is^w^tered rby Several
ft reams, which join the gulf of Mexico.
Among the numerous rivers which flow, on the eaft, into the Atlantic,
may be mentioned the limitary ftream of. j | Croix, the'Penabfcot,
the Kennebec, the Saco, the Merimac, the ConueQicut, a long.and dif-
tinguiftied ftream, which gives nafhe to the province, but which yields
in length and grandeur to the Hudfon river, which riling from feyeral
lakes in the northern parts of New York, flows into the ocean .near the
' floyrifhing city of that name. The river Delawar, which wafttes Philadelphia,
being joined by numerous ftreams, is more remarkable for
its width than for the length of its courfe. The Sufquefianna is diftin-
guilhed by both tliefe attributes, and after-a long and circuitous progrefs
forms the chief contributary ftream to the bay of Chefapek ; which alfo
receives tfie Patomak and the, Fluvanna, or James River. The Pato-
mak is not only diftinguilhed as the feat of the new capital, but for its,
irruption through the Blue Ridge of the Apalachian Mountains, being,
firft joined by the Shenandoa, a confiderable river from the fouth. The
ranee however confifts of broken rocks, and the fcene yields greatly in.
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fublioïity to the paflagè of the Lauricocha or fiilfe Mara non, through the Rivers. .
Andes:, worn into perpendicular walls of ftupèndous height and length.
Further to the fouth the chief rivers flow W. into the Ohio. But the
Black water and Staunton join the Roan ok inlet: and Pamlico found
receives; a river of the fame riimep That of cape F’ear, the Pcdec, the
Santee, the Savannah, and the Altamaha of Georgia, clofe the lift ofAhe
chifef rivers of the United States’.' *
’-Befides the great lakes which’ formstbkmortheru.bonrfdary,, aird wh^ëlL Lakes;
h'avdmeen already mentioned in the geriefal defcrigtlg^-] <|f,lNorth.;Amë-
rio|fthere arêifoïne. corniderafife lakes in théTayt&^ J ^ fe^firhe-Unitedt ’
territory.' The fa . en. ;tbe ';weft' hay.e b,qeniyidle,||&^
lakes, called Cedar, Little? Winnipeg,- atfdjlle^h, j./upply 1 ^
t-he-Mifliffippi. On'the eaft |the imp ft impo^tant^la#e'ilTjfr ar qf jPhtuh-, Champlain,
plain; rather refembling a wide, river, which flows,-i,ritq’,th*ab;!|^,t|.Ta.w%
renc®, and luppliejr an eafy’Tommunicatlöti .With Canada.
plaimis the boundary between, the1 ftates of New York aqd y e'rmjp'rit,, i
being-in length about „75 g.^piileg* while the .breadth feldomSeXYehns >* -
four ,or five; and it terminates m the,broad river caded* ChaifiM||srTJ,
Richlieu, which fall's,within the limits of Canada. * 'ÈalfK^eoffeiiat the- ’
foijthern extremity of Champlain, approaches withiiTa^^mTMfei p s
Hulfpn riVer, fo that a canal might be opèned at fib^greaYfxbetiöe. Be-
fiqps many final! lakes S. W. ofithe Champlain," nafere 'are rpyfeal ©Bier .
lakes, in the fame direction,-and .alfo in tbp,brovin^ce''df|^w; Y(#^|Sihe'
Oh'eid'a, the Cayuga, and Sennaka.
The chicf mountains have been likewife délpribed imthfe g p f^ l view Mountains.
ofNörth America. The \Vjnte and 'Cpr-êéjï mohntaihs inythc northern
pr.ovincés, and the Land’s Height, which bounds the diftriQ; of' Main,
may be regarded as elongations of the Apalachian chain, to which alfo
belong, the Savage and Bald mountains, and the Allegany, fo called from
another name of the river Ohio,; (fometim.es' extended to, the whole ’
Apalachian,) with,many other local denominations, the Blue mountains':, 1
being the moft general terra for the exterior "ridge .ito\vards.„the ocean.*
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* The co.ttipph?rit parts of the White Mountains feefejjSpj^ge, pe 1,
or perhaps granite. See ■. Thc.Blue MounMius are, fometimes inaccurately CtUed
thetSoVth mountains, while thé-Apalachian chain is calleil the North/fhounfeinsy a$o, 'from an In- ,
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