U N I T E D STATES.
The. chief tflands belonging to tbe United States are Long Ifland,
(the province called Rhode Ifland being* continental, with two onthree
fmall iflao^s attached ;*) an d a few infular ftripes o f land near pie
{hares o f N o rth Carolina. T h e others, feattered along and
jn, the various bays and lakes, are o f little cphfequejnce... , .
* Rhode which‘gives name to the State, is about thirteen miles in length, by four
in breadth, with a confiderable town, called Newport} and, before the war, was a beautiful and
highly cultivated diftridh
