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tJNlTEI^ STATES. 



and west of the Alleghany mountains, are yet nearly 

 in a state of nature, but are most rapidly settling** 



The face of the Genessee country appears to be a 

 succession of gentle swellings of land, running most 

 frequently from north to south, and the intermediate 

 spaces afford considerable bottom or meadow land, 

 and generally a small stream of water. The upland 

 is well timbered. The openings or large tracts of 

 land found frequently in this country free of timber^ 

 and shewing great signs of having once been in a 

 state of cultivation, are singularly curious. 



On the Genessee river ten thousand acres may be 

 found in one body, not even encumbered with a bush, 

 but covered with grass of such height, that the 

 largest bullocks, at thirty feet from the path, will be 

 completely hidden from the view.f 



Soil of JVe'w Jei'sey^ 

 x\s much as five-eights of most of the southern 

 counties of New Jersey, or one-fourth of the whole 

 state, is almost a sandy barren, unfit, in many parts> 

 for cultivation. The land on the sea-coast in thiSj 

 like that in the more southern states, has every ap- 

 pearance of made ground. The soil is generally^ 

 light sand ; but this slate has ail the varieties of soil, 

 from the worst to the best kind. It has a great propor- 

 tion of barrens. The good land in the southern coun* 

 ties li^s principally on the banks of rivers and creeks. 



* Morse. 



t Description of Genessee> New York, 1799. These flats resemble 

 the Pampas plains, which commence afew miles from BuenosAyres> 

 and extend to a great distance in the interior. See the account of 

 South America, in Wonders of Nature and Art; vol, xi. 



