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CHAPTER VI. 



United States Climate Diseases Productions Agriculture 

 east of the Alleghany Mountains Agriculture ivcst of the Moun 

 tains Wages Choice of Residence Progress of Wealth 

 Wages of the United States and the Canadas Profits of Capital. 



THE territory of the United States is situated between 24, 

 27, and 49 north latitude, and 10 east, to 54 west longi 

 tude from Washington. Its mean breadth from north to south 

 is about 830 miles, and mean length from east to west, 2500 

 miles. The area embraces 2,076,410 square miles, or 

 1,328,902,400 acres, consisting of the following states and 

 territories : Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu 

 setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ten 

 nessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Florida, and the 

 Arkansas, Michigan, Missouri, North-west and Western terri 

 tories. 



A territory differs from a state in not sending members to 

 Congress ; and the President of the United States, with con 

 sent of the senate, appoints the executive officers. Congress 

 has power to make general laws in the territories, which be 

 come states on containing a sufficient population. 



Many people in Britain have difficulty in forming a concep 

 tion of the extent of the United States, and imagine each state 

 something like the size of the counties in their own country. 

 But some of the divisions into which the territory is separated 

 are much larger than the whole island of Great Britain. 

 The United States must therefore be considered a union of 

 countries each state, having its own government and laws, 

 is divided into counties, which are subdivided into town 

 ships. 



