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of these mountains range between the Arkansaw and Red Rivers, and form the source of the Osage.

These are the most important ranges of mountains in the United States, and give rise to the principal rivers; the other numerous mountains may be seen in the several Geographies, and Atlasses, common to our country.

Government. This may be denominated a Republican Confederacy, united under one grand republican system, and the whole formed upon the elective, or representative plan.

Religion. All religions that do not infringe upon good order, and the laws, are tolerated in the United States.

Literature. I have compressed this article into the following table, which will shew the principal seminaries of learning in the United States.

Universities founded, Academies instituted, &c.

AMERICAN academy of arts and sciences in Massachusetts, May 4, 1780.

Brown university, Rhode-Island, 1770.

Bacon academy, Connecticut, 1803.

Burlington college, Vermont, 1791.

Baltimore college, 1807.

Cambridge, New England, 1630, called Harvard college, founded by John Harvard.

Cok sbury college, Maryland, 1785.

College of physicians at Philadelphia, 1787.

Columbian college, New York, 1787.

Divinity college, Massachusetts, 1808.

Dartmouth college, 1769.

Dickenson college, Pennselvania, 1783.

Franklin college, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1787.

Greenville college, Tennessee, 1794.

Georgia university, 1785.

Henrico, Virginia, 1619.

Massachusetts' academies in number forty-eight, exclusive of the grammar and other schools in the various townships,

1812.

New-England colleges, the graduates in 1807 were 200.

Nassan Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, 1738.

North Carolina "niversity, 1789.

Pennsylvania university, 1779.

Philadelphia academy, 1753.

Rhode Island college, 1764.

St. John's college, Annapolis, 1784.

St. Mary's college, Baltimore, 1804.

Transylvania university, Lexington, Kentucky, 1798.
Union college, Schenectady, 1794.

Washington college, Chester-town, Maryland, 1782.
William and Mary college, Virginia, 1691.

Williamstown college, Massachusetts, 1793.
Yale college, New-Haven, 1700.

Hamilton college.,

Population.-See the following table.

CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES.

All other

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STATES. Years Males. Females. free per- Slaves. Total.

New-Hamp- 1790 70,937 70,160 1800 91,258 93,740

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1810105,782 107,508

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1810229,742 235,561

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New-York, 1790 161,822 152,320 4,654 21,324340,120. 1300237,094 268,122 10,374 20,613436,203 1810474,352,444,518 25,333 15,017959,220 New-Jersey, 1790 86,667 83,287 2,762 11,423 184,139 1800 98,645 95,600 4,402 12,422,211,069 1810115,057111,504

Pennsylva- 1790217,736 206,363

nia,

7,843 10,851 245,255

6,537

1800 301,467 300,898 14,574
1810401,566 385,238 22,492

Delaware, 1790 23,926 22,384 3,899
1800 25,033 24,819 8,268
1810 28,006 27,355) 13,116

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States. Years Males. Females. free per- Slaves. l'otal.

Virginia,

Maryland, 1790 107,254 101,395
1800 113,688 108,310
1810 120,210114,907
1790 227,071 215,046
1800 264,599 254,275
1810 280,038 271,496
North-Caro-1790 147,494 140,710
lina, 1800 171,648166,116
1810 188,632 187,778
South-Caro 1790 73,298 66,880
lina, 1800 100,916 95,339
1810190,587 104,609
Georgia, 1790 27,147 25,739
1800 53;968 48,293
1810 75,845 69,569
Kentucky, 1790 32,211 25,739
1800 93,959 85,915
1810168,805 155,432
1800 24,433 20,595
1810118,093 107,854
Tennessee, 1800 47,180 44,529

Ohio,

1810111,763 104,112

Mississippi 1806 2,907 2,272
Ter. 1810 12,850 10,174
Indiana Ter. 1800 2,95 2,386
1810 12,570 11,320
18,940 15,371

Orleans Ter. 1810
Louisiana "1810

sons.

8,043 103,036319,728
19,987 107,707349,692
33,927111,502 380,546
12,866 292,627747,610
20,507346,968 886,349
30,570 392,518974,622
4,975 100,572 393,751
7,043 133,296 478,103
10,266 168,824 555,500
1,801 107,094 240,073
3,185 146,051 345,591
4,554 196,345 415,115

398 29,264 82,548
1,919 59,599 163,879
1,801 105,318352,433

114 12,430 73,677
741 40,343 220,958
1,713 80,561 406,511
337 none. 45,365
227,843

1,896

309 13,584 105,602
1,317 44,535 261,727

182 3,489 8,850
240 17,088 40,352
163 135 5,641
393 237 24,520
7,585 34,660 76,556

607 3,011 20,845

9,387 7,840

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Illinois 1810

6,380 5,121

613

Dist. of Col. 1810

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24 4,762
128 12,282
5,395 24,023

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.

NAMES AND FORCE OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES.

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Antiquites and Curiosities.- Under this head are to be ranked those remarkable mounds and fortifications which are yet to be seen throughout the vast interior of the United States, together with the engravings upon the flat rocks of the Enchanted Mountains, (so called,) in the state of Tennessee; and other inscriptions found on large flat rocks in the western country.

REMARKS.

These are the records of ages that are past beyond the bounds of the remotest tradition, and hang suspended on the field of conjecture in the age in which we live.

I have promised to solve this mystery, in its place, and 1 will now attempt it.

It will be recollected, that in the Introductory Remarks of this work, it was noticed, that the art of Navigation had its rise among the Phoenicians and Egyptians, about 2000 years before Christ, and that this was conducted by the way of coasting adventure for about 3,300 years, down to the time of the discovery of the magnetism, and the mariner's compass, in the 14th century; and that, in the course of this time, this coasting adventure had led to the discovery of the shores of the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic shores of Europe generally, and that the whole continent of Africa had been circumnavigated. Now it is presumed that in the multitude of these adventures, some of them were blown off the coast, and were driven by the trade winds across the Atlantic, and formed the settlement at Mexico; for this would be the point where the trade winds and the Gulf Stream would naturally land them.

To support this conjecture take the following facts. The Phoenicians and Egyptians worshipped the sun, had the art of embalming their dead, possessed the arts extensively, and practised human sacrifice. All these were common to the Mexicans when they were conquered by Cortes. I place no further confidence in the tradition delivered by Montezuma to Cortez, "that his ancestors came from the remote regions of the east, and settled that empire; and that their descendants should come at some future day and take possession of the empire," than as it serves for one link in the chain by which my conjectures are united.

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These points being settled, let us pursue the colonies of these people up the Mississippi, and examine their attempts

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