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Show 19.2 EAHGRAN'f'S GUIDE. ' Dr. Drake's inductions are more or Jess applicable t6 the entire surface, and have the invaluable merit of being drawn from ac tual experience, and ::~rra nged without referenc.e to the sup(Jort of previous· Jy forme d hypothesis. As far as the constitu tion of the climate and the qualit ies of the soil are concerned, Dr. Drake's work will long remain a text book upon the regions adjacent to the Ohio. In the detail of the several territorial divisions of the valleys of the Ohio and Illinois, their vegetable and minera] prod uctions will be given as far as direct data can be fo und. In the review of the severa~ states and territories, we will pursue a course from south to north, as in the preceding parts of th is treati se. Following this mcthou, Tennessee will first present itse lf. T he annexed table exhibits the extent of T ennessee, with its popul ation in H>IQ. An es· timate is given of the number of people that state is now supP.osed to con'lain. This estimate is foun ded upon a ~uppositiou that tb'e in· habitants increase five per cent. per annum, (expunging small frac. tions ;) this data no doubt will give rather too small a result; it can· .net be very far, however, from the real llumber. TOPOGRAPHICAL TABLE. E.AST TENNESSEE. co tmtu. s. Population. Chief towns. Anderson 3 ,959 Bledsoe 8,839 J}'farysvi11e Blount 3,259 Maryville Campbell 2,668 Carter 4,190 Elizabethtown Cl aiborne 4,798 Tazewell Cocke 5,154 Newport Granger 6,397 Rutledge Greene 9,7 J 3 Greenville Hawkins 7,643 Rogersville Jefferson 7,309 Dandridge Knox: ] 0, 171 Knmcville Rhea 2,504 Washington Roane 5,571 Kingston Sevier 4,595 Sevierville Sullivan 6,847 Blountsv ille Washington 7,740 Jonesborough 101,367 • 'WEST TENNESSEE. Counties. Population. Chief towns. Bedford 8,<242 She! by ville Lavidson 15,608 Nashville Dickson 4 ,516 F ranklin 5 ,730 Winchester GiJes 4,646 Pulaski El\HGRANT'S GUIDE. Counties. Hickman Hu mphrey Jackson Lincoln .Montgomery Maury 0\·erton Hobe r t~on Rutherford Summer Smith Stuart Wilson Williar1lson White Vvarren Popula.t£on. 2 583 1' , 51 1 5,401 6,1 0<1 8,021 10,359 5 61!3 7'. 270 ' 10,265 13,792 11,649 4,262 11 ,952 13, !53 4,028 5,725 160,360 101 ,367 T otal- 261 , 727 Chief towns. · ':Vill iamson Fayetteville Clarkesville Columbia 1\'Ionroe Springfield J cfferson l D3 Gall a tin Dixon's Sprin~s Lebanon F'ranklin Sparta :I\1 'Minviiie A11owing an increase of five per cent. per annum, the present P£>· pulation of Tennessee, 1816, amounts to 340,000 persons. Length, breadth, exte;tt.- Tennessee is the longest state: in t~e United States, being from northeast to southwest 4 70 miles : 1 t~ breadth is one degree and a half of latitude, or 1 ,038 miles : the extent is withi n a small frac tion of 40,000 square miles, equal w 25,600,000 Ameri can ac res. Natural f eatures.-From i t~ position on the globe, its e:xt~ndiog, from east to west, and from its narrow ureadtb, Tennessee mtght ba gupposed to exhibit but little variation of climate i but the posi tion of the mounta ins in the state and in the adjacE1pt states, has a great· influence over the cl imate of Tennessee. T here is no state in the United States, excepting Georgia, which admits the culture of so many valuable vegetables, as does this st::1te. Cumberlancl mountain intersects the state oLli~ue1y, and divides it into two unequal valleys, those of Cumberland and that of Tennessee. T hose two rivers in their advance to the Ohio, approach, and enter the main stream , only eleven miles ap::~rt from each other. The 'rennessee is the longest and largest branch of Ohio : its extreme N. E. source rises in Wythe county in Virginia : its extreme S. E. branch rises in Georgia. The entire sources reach through two degrees of latitude, having various mnnes ; the French BroaJ, No] achucky, and IIolstGn, form by their junction the southeast branch : the Clinch the northwestern : their union at Kingston forms the Tennessee. Below Kingston the Tennessee receiYes no river of any cons ide rable length, to the Muscle Shoals, a distance of upwards of 200 miles. A ihort distance Lelow the head of the 1\!uscle Shoals, lk rin~~r 25 |
