A Brief Topographical and Statistical Manual of the State of New-York: Exhibiting the Situation and Boundaries of the Several Counties ... and Designating the Principal Places and the Seat of the Courts ... |
Other editions - View all
A Brief Topographical and Statistical Manual of the State of New-York ... Sterling Goodenow No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
&c.-Part of Hudson's Albany Allegany amount annually Bank branches Bridge Broome Buffalo Canandaigua Cattaraugus Cattaraugus creek Cattskill Cayuga Census Champlain Canal Chautauque Chenango city of New-York Clinton Columbia commerce COMMON SCHOOLS contains Counties-E COUNTY Is bounded Courtlandt Courts creek Delaware districts Dutchess East Erie Canal Essex estimated Franklin Genesee GREENE COUNTY Hamilton Harbour head waters Hempstead Herkimer Hill hilly country Hudson's river included Indian Inhab inhabitants Island Jefferson kill Lake Erie Lake George Lake Ontario Landing Lawrence Legislature Little Livingston Long-Island Madison manufactures miles millions Mills Mohawk river Monroe Montgomery navigation Neck Niagara Oneida Lake Onondaga Orange Oswego Otsego places Plattsburgh Point Pond population publick returns revenue Rockland Sackett's Harbour Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie Seneca Lake Seneca river separates Settlement situation slaves Steuben sundry Susquehannah Tioga toll Tompkins Tonnewanta Towns Tuscarora Ulster Unadilla Unadilla river Union Village Utica Washington West West Canada creek West-Chester whole
Popular passages
Page 2 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., 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...
Page 30 - O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true, Scenes of accomplish'd bliss ! which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refresh'd with foretaste of the joy ? Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes with beauty ; the reproach Of barrenness is past. The fruitful field Laughs with abundance ; and the land, once lean, Or fertile only in its own disgrace, Exults to see its thistly curse repeal'd.
Page 2 - Wilson, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor, in the words following...
Page 23 - Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.
Page 23 - ... number of students, forty. One at Nashville, founded in 1806 ; number of students, one hundred. One at Knoxville, founded in 1807 ; number of students, fifty-six. And one near Columbia, founded in 1830 ; number of students, one hundred. The legislature by various enactments have provided a school fund, the interest of which is to be applied to the support of common schools. The fund is invested in public stocks, and in 1839 amounted to eight hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. DIVISION...
Page 25 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons In the City of New York.
Page 28 - ... unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required : and to whom much is committed, of him shall more be demanded.
Page 10 - The court for the trial of impeachments and the correction of errors, shall consist of the President of the Senate, the senators, the chancellor, and the justices of the Supreme Court, or the major part of them : but when an impeachment shall be prosecuted against the chancellor, or any justice of the Supreme Court, the person so impeached shall be suspended from exercising...
Page 31 - Europe, and which (besides many intenrrinate sublime natural views and objects) contains on its western confines the greatest natural curiosity in the world ; a country interspersed (exclusive of the great waters before named) with more than fifteen lakes from ten to forty miles in length, and numerous smaller ones, exhibiting ad (Treat an extent, variety and beauty of inland waterscenery as all the other states together. United States