VIEW

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, AND
STATISTICAL;

EXHIBITING, IN A CONVENIENT FORM,
THE NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FEATURES

OF THE

SEVERAL STATES,

AND EMBRACING THOSE LEADING BRANCHES OF
HISTORY AND STATISTICS BEST ADAPTED TO DEVELOP THE
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE

NORTH AMERICAN UNION.

Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 8s.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twentieth day of October, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1828, Henry S. Tanner of the said district hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"View of the United States, Historical, Geographical, and Statistical; exhibiting, in a convenient form, the Natural and Artificial Features of the several States, and embracing those leading branches of History and Statistics best adapted to develop the present condition of the North American Union. Illustrated with Maps, &c. By William Darby."

In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act entitled, "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled, an Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

D. CALDWELL,

Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

MIFFLIN AND PARRY, PRINTERS.

In the execution of the volume I now place be fore the public, the natural method was chosen in preference to the usual more regular course of geographical description. In the physical part the names of artificial subdivisions have been introduced only where indispensable; and the names of a few cities used as mere land-marks. The rivers are traced in a connected series as far as possible, and the continuity of the mountain systems traced as far as accurate data have been collected.

With such previous survey of the mountain and river systems, and with their relative extent given, the artificial subdivisions can be referred clearly to their respective natural section. In a view, necessarily brief, only outlines could be given, and the principal benefit of such a view would have been lost by crowding the description with too much detail. The work is intended for practical use, therefore technical terms were excluded with scrupulous

care.

Geology, as it stands in our books, being a science (if it deserves the name of a science) of conjecture, I have rejected, as far as practicable, terms that teach nothing definite. How far I have suc