A Book of the United States.

Transcriber’s Notes

Hall of Representatives ... Washington.

Bridge and Rapids near Falls of Niagara.

A BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES.

EXHIBITING ITS

GEOGRAPHY, DIVISIONS, CONSTITUTION, AND GOVERNMENT;

INSTITUTIONS, AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES, RELIGION, EDUCATION, POPULATION, NATURAL CURIOSITIES, RAILROADS, CANALS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, FINE ARTS, ANTIQUITIES, LITERATURE, MINERALOGY, BOTANY, GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, PRODUCTIONS, &c. &c. &c.

AND PRESENTING

A VIEW OF THE REPUBLIC GENERALLY,

AND OF THE

INDIVIDUAL STATES;

View on the Mississippi.

TOGETHER WITH A CONDENSED

HISTORY OF THE LAND,

FROM ITS FIRST DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME.

THE BIOGRAPHY

OF ABOUT TWO HUNDRED OF THE LEADING MEN:

A DESCRIPTION OF THE

PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS;

WITH

STATISTICAL TABLES,

RELATING TO THE RELIGION, COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES, AND VARIOUS OTHER TOPICS.

EDITED BY

GRENVILLE MELLEN

WITH ENGRAVINGS OF CURIOSITIES, SCENERY, ANIMALS, CITIES, TOWNS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, &c.

HARTFORD:

PUBLISHED BY A. C. GOODMAN & CO.

1852.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by

GRENVILLE MELLEN,

in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.