UNITED STATES. 



1. The Atlantic Coast • 



The Atlantic coast, so called from the ocean that 

 washes its shores, and into which all its rivers flow, 

 extends from Canada to Florida i its breadth, whick 

 varies from fifty to a hundred and eighty miles, 

 increasing as it advances to the southward. It is 

 the original and principal part of the states that 

 compose the Union, which are arranged in it in the 

 following order : 



Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Vir- 

 ginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New 

 Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, 

 Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and 

 the district of Maine. 



This country has but little elevation throughout 

 its whole extent, being flattest in the southern 

 states, as far as Maryland, and even New Jersey, 

 and more unequal, approach in^3 to the mountainous 

 in the northern states, particularly in Connecticut, 

 Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Long Island 

 may be considered as a tolerably precise point of 

 division between these two different kinds of land j 

 for, from this island to the north, as far as the river 

 St. Croix,* and even to the mouth of the St. Law- 

 rence, the shore is high, rocky, and interspersed 

 with reefs, which are connected with the nucleus 

 of the adjoining continent: on ■^n Ai-" 

 ceeding from Long Island toward the s^utu, lue 

 coast is unifornily a low shore, nearly level with 



* The frontier between the United States and the English po>ses= 



