| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1886 - 650 pages
...States, and Napoleon the First was Emperor of France, at a cost to us of only $15,000,000. It extended from the British possessions on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from the Mississippi River on the east to the Rocky Mountains on the west. The mean average temperature of Arkansas... | |
| Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 480 pages
...lands in America, lying betw4ea the, fortieth and.ifortjK : eighth degrees of north latitude, extending from the Atlantic ocean on the east, to the Pacific ocean on the west, and including those tracts of country, which afterwards became the colonies ^)f Pennsylvania and New-... | |
| Jedidiah Morse, Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 398 pages
...middle division of North America. It extends from British America on the north, to Spanish America on the south; and from the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Pacific onjhe west. 49 Civil Divisions. This extensive country is divided into .24 Stales, 4 Territories, and... | |
| Presbyterians - 1831 - 456 pages
...which it shall be found practicable, in all the great valley of the Mississippi, extending from Canada on the North, to the gulf of Mexico on the South ; and from the Alleghany Mountains on the East, to the Rocky Mountains on the West, a territory of very near twelve... | |
| 1830 - 640 pages
...which it shall be found practicable, in all the great Valley of the Mississippi, extending from Canada on the North, to the Gulf of Mexico on the South, and from the Allegheny mountains on the East, to the Rocky mountains on the West; a territory very nearly twelve... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - America - 1837 - 102 pages
...it. 3. If you look on the map, you will see that the land belonging to the United States, stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Pacific Ocean on the west; a distance of 2500 miles. But nearly one half of this vast territory is inhabited by Indians. All the... | |
| English literature - 1838 - 728 pages
...the Rio de las Nueches on the west, and from the Red River, one of the confluents of the Mississippi, on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and is stated, by some, to be four times the size of Virginia, and, by others, nine times that of Kentucky... | |
| English literature - 1838 - 574 pages
...Rio de las Nueches on the west, and Irom ' the Red River, one of the confluents of the Mississippi, on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and is stated, 'by some, to be fuur times the. size of Virginia, and, by others, nine times that of Kentucky... | |
| John M'Kerrow - Church of Scotland - 1841 - 986 pages
...ministers and members, whose locations are scattered over a region of country, extending from Canada on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south ; and from the Atlantic on the east, to the Missouri on the west. It numbers twenty-two synods, one hundred and eleven presbyteries,... | |
| James Rogers (of City road, London.) - 1844 - 86 pages
...darken the air. Pigeons of this species inhabit those regions of North America, extending from Canada on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and are found as far westward as the ridge of the Stony Mountains. This bird is about sixteen inches in... | |
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