TERRITORY. 



on ll.o W. by lake Micliigaii. Its extent from N. to S. is 

 234 miles, and from E. to W. 138 miles. Its area con- 

 tains 27,000 fquare miles, or 17,280,000 acres. The cen- 

 tral part of this territory is high, and from this is a dcfccnt 

 in all direftions. 



The rivers are St. Mary's, Huron, Detroit, Black, Ma- 

 ramee. Grand, Carrion, Raifin, S:c. The foil is generally 

 riclj and fertile, and produces wheat, oats, barley, rye, corn, 

 potatoes, fruit, &c. The climate is temperate and falu- 

 brious ; winter lalling from the middle of November to the 

 middle of March. 



Topographical Table. 



Chief Town. 



Detroit 



770 



4762 



Morfe and Melifli. See Detroit. 



Territory, Mijfijjippi, an improving country of Ame- 

 rica, which, it is prefumed, will be divided into two Hates, 

 the Tombigby being the boundary. It is fituated between 

 30° 15' and 55° N. lat., and 8^ and 14° 32' W. long, from 

 Wafhington city ; and bounded on the N. by Tenneflee, on 

 the S. by Louifiana, Weft Florida, and the gulf of 

 Mexico, on the E. by Georgia, and on the W. by Loui- 

 fiana and Miffouri territory. Its extent from N. to S. is 

 312 miles, and from E. to W. 324 miles; and its area 

 comprehends 89,000 fquare miles, or 56,960,000 acres. Its 

 general afpeft is, towards the fouth, level, to the north, 

 elevated and beautifully diverfified, and on the north-eaft 

 are fome fpurs of the Alleghany mountains. The foil, ge- 

 nerally good, and in many places excellent, produces cotton, 

 corn, rice, wheat, rye, oats, fome fugar, and indigo. The 

 climate is much commended ; the winters being mild, and 

 the fummers not warmer than feveral degrees to the north- 

 ward. 



Topographical Table, 



Melifh. See Mississippi. 



Territory, Miffouri, an improving country of Ame- 

 rica, which may probably be fubdivided into diftinft ftates, 

 is fituated between 26'' and 49° 317' N. lat., and 12° and 

 49° 30' W. long.; and bounded on the N. by an unfettled 



country, on the S. by Louiliana and the gulf of Mexico, 

 on the E. by Upper Canada, the North-well territory, 

 Illinois territory, Kentucky, Tenneifec, MiffifTippi territory, 

 and Louifiana, on the W. by the Pacific ocean, and on the 

 S.W. by the Spanilh internal provinces. Its extent from 

 N. to S. is about 1380 miles, and from E. to W. about 

 l68o milts; and its area contains 1,580,000 fquare miles, 

 or 1,01 1,200,000 acres. The afpeft of tlie country, fouth- 

 warj, is level, in many places overflowed by rivers ; to the 

 north, elevated, fwelling out into large hills ; and to the north- 

 weft and weft, very lofty mountains. The rivers of the terri- 

 tory are the Millillippi, Miffouri, Kanfes, Grand, Ofage, 

 Maramee, St. Francis, White, Arkanfaw, Wachitta, Red, 

 Sabine, Moines, Rio Colorado, Rio Bravos dc Dios, Rio 

 Guadalupe, Rio del Norte, &c. Its minerals are abun- 

 dant, particularly lead, the mines of which near St. Gene- 

 vieve are extenfive and valuable. The foil is various in qua- 

 lity, but much of it is rich and fertile ; and produces grain, 

 grafs, fruit, cotton, and fome fugar and indigo. The cli- 

 mate is, in the fouth, warm, in the middle temperate, to the 

 north and weft cold ; on the Pacific ocean temperate. 



Topographical Table. 



niRnfls. 



Cape Girardeau 

 New Madrid - 

 St. Charles - 

 St. Louis 

 St. Genevieve 

 Settlements of Hopel 

 Fieldand St. Fraiicis J 

 Ditto on Arkanfaw - 



874 



20845 



Melifh. See Missouri. 



Territory, North-Wejl, an extenfive territory of Ame- 

 rica, not yet organifed into a regular government, is fituated 

 between 41° 45' and 49° 37' N. lat., and 7° and 18^50' W. 

 long, from Wafhington city ; and bounded on the N. by 

 Upper Canada and lake Superior, on the S. by Indiana and 

 Illinois territory, on the E. by Upper Canada and lake Mi- 

 chigan, on the W. and S.W. by Miffiflippi river, which di- 

 vides it from the Miffouri territory. Its extent from N. to 

 S. is about 360 miles, and from.E. to W. 456 miles; and 

 its area contains about 147,000 fquare miles, or 94,080,000 

 acres. The face of the country is generally undulating, in 

 fome places hilly, but not mountainous. Its rivers are the 

 MilTiffippi, Ouifconfin, Fox, Monomonie, Chippeway, &c. 

 The foil is moftly excelleiU ; and the climate, towards the 

 fouth, is pleafant, and to the north, cold. Few fettlements 

 have yet been made in this extenfive region, and the inha- 

 bitants were not included in the laft cenfus. Melilh. 



Territory of Orleans. See Louisiana, Orleans, and 

 United States. 



TERROR. The effeft of terror, or of fudden frights, 

 in difeafes, is often very great. 



It is generally obferved, that people who arc moil afraid 

 of the plague in time of contagion, catch the infeftion foon- 

 cft ; and that thofe who are moft terrified and difheartencd at 

 firft in the difcafe, generally die of it. It is indeed uncer- 

 tain, whether this be attributed to the terror, or whether 

 the terror itfelf, as a confequence of dejeftion of fpirits, 

 be not merely a fymptom of the difeafe. Kcrkring, Spi- 

 cilcg. Anat. 



Sudden frights, in acute difeafes, have evidently killed 



manyj 



