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fprings. Wafhington fends five members to the houfe of 

 aflembly. 



Washington, a poft-townfliip of New York, in Du- 

 cliefs county ; 80 miles S. of Albany ; about 7 miles fquare, 

 and watered by Wappinger's creek. The foil is good for 

 farming, a:;d affords excellent wheat, being under good 

 cultivation. The inhabitants are principally farmers ; and 

 there are 80 looms in families, which in 18 10 produced 

 20,750 yards of cloth for common clothing. Near the 



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ingtoii, and 5030 in Adams county being flaves. — Alfo, 

 a townfhip of Harrifon county, in Indiana territory, con- 

 taining 1257 inhabitants, 6 being (laves Alfo, a city of 



Columbia, containing 82C9 inhabitants, of whom 1437 are 

 flaves. George-town includes 4943 inhabitants, of wiiom 

 1162 are flaves. This city is fitnatcd on the river Poto- 

 mack, and intended to be the capital of the United States, 

 and the ieat of the Congrefs. According to the plan, the city 

 is to be divided into fquares or grand divifions, by ilreets in- 



centre of the townlliip is the handfome village of Mechanic, tcrfeding each other from the cardinal points, with diagonal 



containing about 20 dwellings, a quaker-nieeting, and a 

 fchool. About 2 miles N.W. from Mechanic is another 

 village, including about 20 houfes, a woollen manufactory, 

 and feveral mills, and called Hartfville. In i8io the whole 

 population comprifed 2854 perfons, and i8oele6tors. 



Washington, a town of New Jerfey, in Burlington 

 coanty, containing 1273 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town of 

 New Jerfey, in Morris county, containing 1793 inha- 

 bitants. — Alfo, a county of Peunfylvania, containing 

 36,289 inhabitants, of whom 36 are flaves. — Alfo, a town- 

 iliip of Pennfylvania, in the county of Northumberland, 

 containing 438 inhabitants Alfo, a townfhip of Pennfyl- 

 vania, in the county of York, contauiing 941 inhabitants 



Alfo, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, in the county of Frank- 



flreets from fome of the principal parts, as from the prefi- 

 dent's houfe to the capitol, and fome other points. All 

 houfes to be built of brick or ftone, with the walls parallel 

 to the flreets ; and the walls in ftreets mcafuring 160 feet 

 in breadth, to be at lead 30 feet in height. The area of 

 the capitol, or houfe for the Icgiflative bodies, is to be 

 fituated on an eminence about a mile from the Potomack, 

 and nearly the fame dillance from the eaflern branch. The 

 houfe for the prefident to be near the Potomack, within 

 view of the capitol. In different parts of the city, where 

 the principal ftreets crofs each other, are areas in a variety 

 of regular forms ; of thefe fifteen are appropriated to the 

 different ilates of United America, for the ercftion of mo- 

 numents, obelif]<;s, or ftatues ; and on a fmall eminence. 



lin, containing 2709 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Penn- weft from the capitol, is to be eredled an equeilrian ilatue 



fylvania, in the county of Indiana, containing 755 inhabit- of general Wafhington ; at the junction of the rivers, a 



ants. — Alfo, a town of Pennfylvania, in the county of Wafh- fort is to be creAed, with an arfcnal and magazines. Moll 



ington, containing 1301 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townflup of of the ftreets have been marked out, and the fquares divided 



Pennfylvania, in the county of Weftmoreland, including into lots in the year 1792, fince which time fome thoufand 



1695 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfliip of Peimfylvania, in the 

 county of Lycoming, having 675 inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 county of Maryland, on the W. coaft of the Chefapeak, 

 containing 18,730 inhabitants, of v.hom 2656 are flaves. — 

 Alfo, a county of Virginia, bordering on North Carohna, 

 containing 12,136 inhabitants. — Alfo, a fea-port town of 

 North Carolina, formerly called Bath, fituated on the north 

 fide of Pamlico river, with a good harbour ; 20 miles 

 N.N.E. of Newbern. N. lat. 35° 31'. W. long. 77°.— 

 Alfo, a county of Ohio, bordering on lake Erie, con- 

 taining 5991 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in 

 the county of Clermont, containing 1527 inhabitants. — 

 Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in Franklin county, including 



280 inhabitants Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in the county 



of Miami, containing 787 iniiabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip 

 of Ohio, in the county of Montgomery, including 1584 in- 

 habitants Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in Pickaway county, 



containing 974 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfliip of Ohio, in 

 Prebble county, containing 440 inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 county of Kentucky, including 12,999 inhabitants, of whom 

 2185 are flaves. Its town of ^ipringfielJ contains 249 

 inhabitants, 60 being flaves. — Alfo, a town of Kentucky, in 

 Mafon county. The county contains 11,071 inhabitants, 

 2065 being flaves; and tlie town iricludes 81 ; inhabitants, 

 25'l being flaves. — Alfo, a county of North Carolina, con- 

 taining 3464 inhabitants. — Alfo, a county of Eafl Tennef- 

 fee, containing 7740 inhabitants, 850 being flaves. — Alfo, 

 a county of Georgia, containing 9940 inhabitants, 3513 being 

 flaves. — Alio, a town of Georgia, near which is a medicinal 

 fpring ; I 3 miles S. W. of Peterfbnrg. N. lat. 33° 47'. W. 

 long. 82° 16'. — Alfo, a town of Georgia, in Wilkes county ; 

 the county and town containing 14,887 inhabitants, of whom 

 7666 in the county, and 218 in the town, are flaves. t— Alfo, 

 a county of the Miffiffippi territory, containing 2920 in- 

 habitants, of whom 900 are flaves. 



Wa.siiinoton, Tonvn oj, in the territory of Miflifllppi, 



workmen have been conftantly employed ; 140 miles S.W. 



of Philadelphia. N. lat. 38=57'. W. long. 77° 8' Alfo, 



a county of Columbia, which, exclufive of the city and 

 George-town, contains 23 15 inhabitants, 955 being flaves. 



Washington'^ IJlands, iflands near the weft coaft of 

 North America. Captain Dickfon difcovered thefe iflands 

 in 1787, and called them Queen Charlotte^ s IJlands. Captain 

 Gray, of the United States, difcovered them in 1789, and 

 called them W afiington' s IJlands. 



WASHITA, or Ouacjhtta, or Ouachitau, called alfo 

 Black River, a river of Louifiana, which is the principal 

 tributary ftream of Red river ; the latter commencing in 

 the low fandy hills, or Caous mountains, near Santa Fc. 

 Black is now ufed to defignate the united waters of Oua- 

 chitau, ( properly fo called, ) Ocatahoolu, and Tenfaw rivers ; 

 but Ouachitau having gained a more dcferved attention 

 than the other brandies, the name of that is ufed, without 

 impropriety, to defignate the valley between the Miinflippi, 

 Arkanfaw, and Red rivers. This valley i> upwards of 

 3 90 miles in length, and its broadell part from the Qucpa 

 village on Arkanfaw, to the heads of Derbenc river, 150 

 wide. It is nearly elliptic in its form, and averages from 

 70 to 80 miles wide, extending over more than 25,000 fquare 

 miles of furfaee, and upwards of 16,000,000 American 

 acres, which contain large tracts of fine arable foil, many 

 places that indicate mineral wealth, and an excellent climate. 

 The principal brancli of the Ouachitta takes its fonrce from 

 the mountainous prairies between Red and Arkanfaw rivers, 

 about 34*^ N. lat., and W. long. 95° -50'. The mountains 

 from which it flows arc compofed of fecondary materials : 

 marine cxuvia are found every where mixed with the 

 fchiftus, argillaceous earth, and other matters that compofe 

 the face and interior of thefe rugged mountains. No gra- 

 nitic mafs is found ; but the whole face of the country indi- 

 cates marine fubnierfion at fome remote period. The 

 Fmirche au Cado, Little Miffouri, and Saline branches of 



containing, together with the city of Natchez and Adams Ouachitta, rife in the fame ridge with the principal ftream. 

 county, 10,002 inhabitants, 459 in Natchez, 182 in Wafh- The foil round the head of Ouachitta rcfenibles that of the 



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