GENERAL CONFIGURATION. 



feaiiks of the rivers, where rice and Indian corn 

 grow to the largest size. You will scarcely find a 

 stone that weighs two or three pounds within thirty 

 or forty miles of the shore. Proceeding into the coun- 

 try, the surface becomes more hilly, and the soil more 

 stony ; it is also less fertile. 



The second district is bounded on the south by the 

 Tenessee, on the north by the Ohio, on the east by 

 the AUeghanies, and on the west by the Missis- 

 sippi. 



It comprises the state of Kentucky, and that of 

 Tenessee. 



All this space is extremely broken with little 

 mountains, and steep ridges, most of them however 

 covered with woods. From east to west in particu- 

 lar it is traversed by the chain that bears the name of 

 Cumberland, which is thirty miles in breadth, and 

 runs between the river of the* same name and the 

 Tenessee. In the valleys, and in what few plains 

 there are, the soil is generally of an excellent qua- 

 lity, being a kind of black, rich, friable mould, from 

 three to fifteen feet deep, and consequently of ex- 

 treme fertility. The forest trees it produces are far 

 superior in the size of their trunks and fullness of 

 their branches, to the thin and slender trees of the - 

 Atlantic coast ; some of the wild cherry-trees are. 

 five feet and a half in diameter. 



The third district is bounded on the south by the 

 Ohio ; on the north by the lakes of the St. Lawrence; 

 and, as the former, on the east and west by the Al- 

 leghany mountains and the Mississippi. Its sur- 

 face is nearly plain, or commodiously undulated ; 

 scarcely can a mountain or a ridge two hundred: 



