A Brief Topographical and Statistical Manual of the State of NewYork Exhibiting the Situation and Boundaries of the Several Counties the Cities, and Other Places Within the Limits of Eac

Excerpt from A Brief Topographical and Statistical Manual of the State of New-York: Exhibiting the Situation and Boundaries of the Several Counties the Cities, Towns, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks, &C. In Each, the Villages and Other Places Within the Limits of Each Town Distances From the Seat of Government, &C

The following Tables and part of the plan of their arrangement: were originally made for my own use only. The. Reasons and nee cessity for them, being the same to an individual as to the publiclc, will be sufficiently understood, when I shall have explained, in the course of these remaiks, the general use and convenience ofthis Manual. When I had partially executed my original design. Sev eral persons wishing for copies and suggesting the great conve uicuco such a kind of pocket Register or herbal map, as it were, might be to the generality of readers, travellers, and men of busi ness, I enlarged and improved the plan and undertook to collect sufiicient facts to make it full and correct. The time and pains necessary to be spent in doing this, however,' have been greater than was at first imagined, and the publication has consequently been some time delayed.

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