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GREAT BRITAIN. 



Kentucky is situated between latitude 36 30' and 39 6 r north, and 

 longitude 5 oo ; and 12 38' west from Washington. Area about 

 40,000 square miles. The detailed survey of the State will probably 

 demonstrate that the State is larger than is now supposed. 



The River boundary of the State is 813 miles: by the Big Sandy or 

 Chatteroi on the northeast for 120 miles; by the Ohio on the north 

 for 643 miles ; and by the Mississippi on the west for 50 miles. The 

 Chatteroi, Licking, Kentucky, Green, Cumberland, and Tennessee are 

 the principal rivers, having their source in the Cumberland Mountains, 

 and affording to all parts of the State admirable drainage and river com- 

 munication with the Ohio and entire Mississippi river system. No State 

 has a frontage on navigable rivers equal to Kentucky. 



I'J'ak^n frnm Eclectic Geographies.] 



GEOLOGICAL MAP OF KENTUCKY. 



Quaternary 

 Carboniferom 



Snbcarboni/erovs 

 ■ Devonian 



Upper Silurian 

 Lower Silufian 



The surface of the State is an elevated plateau, sloping from the 

 Cumberland Mountains on the southeast to the Mississippi and Ohio 

 rivers on the north and west. The eastern coal-field, comprising about 

 10,000 square miles, has an elevation above sea level of from 650 feet 

 on the Ohio river and 1,300 feet on the southwestern border to 3,500 

 on the southeastern border. The great Central, or Blue Grass region 

 (Lower Silurian on accompanying map), has an area of about 10,000 

 square miles, and an elevation of from 800 to 1,150 feet. The Devonian 

 and Upper Silurian has an area of about 2,500 square miles, and an 



