NEW-YORK, 



SITUATION AND EXTENT. 



Miles. 



Length 350 ~> , t 

 Breadth 300 J between 



Degrees. 



40 32 and 45 North latitude. 

 73 and 80 West longitude. 



Sq. Mile?, 

 55,000 



Boundaries. ...The state of New-York is bounded on the east by 

 the Atlantic Ocean, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont ; on 

 the north and north-west by Canada, and lakes Ontario and Erie ; on 

 the west by Niagara river, lake Erie and Pennsylvania; and on the 

 south by Pennsylvania and New-Jersey. 



Divisions. ...This state is divided into forty-seven counties, and 471 

 towns. The counties, with their population and chief towns, are as 

 fohows : 



Chief Towns. 

 Sag-Harbour, Huntington, East-Hampton, 

 Jamaica, Newtown, Hempstead. 

 Brooklyn, Flathush. 

 Richmond, Old-Town. 

 New-York, 40° 42' N. lat. 74° 10' W. long. 

 Bedford, Peekskill, White Plains. 

 Warren, Orangetown, Ramassough. 

 Newburgh, Goshen, New-Windsor. 

 Fredericksburgh , Carmel. 

 Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck-Flats, FishkilL 

 Kingston, Newpaltz, Saugerties. 

 Monticello, Cochecton, Bloomingburgh, 

 Delhi, Waterville, Walton. 

 Cattskill, Athens, Coxsackie. 

 Hudson, Claverack, New-Lebanon. 

 Albany, Rensselaerville. 

 Troy, Lansingburg, Greenbush. 

 Schenectady, Duanesburgh. 

 Watcrford, Ballston-Spa, Saratoga.. 

 Johnstown, Palatine, Canajoharie.. 

 Caldwell, Glen's Falls. 

 Salem, Sandyhill, Whitehall. 

 Elizabethtown, Essex, Jay. 

 Plattsburgh, Champlain, Peru. 

 Malore, Chateaugay, Bangor. 

 Schoharie, Middleburgh, Esperance, 

 Cooperstown, Cherry-valley, Unadilla, 

 Herkimer. Little-Falls, Fairfield, 



Counties. 



Population. 



Suffolk, 



21,113 



Queen's, 



19,336 



King's, 



8,303 



Richmond, 



5,347 



New -York, 



96,372 



West-Chester 



, 30,272 



Rockland, 



7,748 



Orange, 



34,347 



Putnam, 



10,293 



Duichess, 



41,119 



Ulster, 



26,576 



Sullivan, 



6,108 



Delaware, 



20,313 



Greene, 



19,536 



Columbia, 



32,370 



Albnny, 



34,661 



Rensselaer, 



36,382 



Schenectady, 



10,247 



Saratoga, 



33,147 



Montgomery, 



41,906 



Warren, 



6,235 



Washington, 



38/44 



Essex, 



9,525 



Clinton, 



8,032 



Franklin, 



2.719 



arie, 



18,945 



Otsego, 



38,667 



Herkimer. 



22,060 



