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Title: The New York Tribune's history of the United States, from the discovery of America until the present time, with a pocket atlas of the world, containing colored maps of each state and territory in the United States, with statistics showing products and resources of the various states; also, maps of every country in the world
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hassard, John R. G. (John Rose Greene), 1836-1888
Subjects: Atlases
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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on 1.941,465; male, 932,429; female, 1,009,036; native,1,459,982; foreign, 481,483; white, 1,920,498; colored, 20,361; Chinese,229; Japanese, 8; Indians, 369. State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after firstMonday in November. Number Senators, 40; Representatives,240; sessions annual, meeting first Wednesday in January; limitof session, none; terms of Senators and Representatives, one yeareach. Number electoral voles, 14; number voters, 544,192; nativewhite, 853,347; foreign while, 184,439; colored, 6,406; Paupers.persons under guardians, non-taxpayers, and men unable to readand write excluded from voting. Number quarries, 113; ports of entry, 9; customs districts, 11.First American newspaper, Boston, 1G90; lirst freight railroad inUnited States, Quincy; first American library at Harvard College. Number colleges, 7 ; education compulsory ; schools excellent;■chool age, 5-15. Legalmterest rate, 6; by contract, any rate. ATLAS OF THE WOULD. 87 MAP OF MASSACHUSETTS.
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88 ATLAS OF THE WORLD. RHODE ISLAND. Rod riand. Little Khody. One of the thirteen original States and smallest in the Union;supposed temporary settlement by Icelanders as early as 1000;eettled by ltoo;er Williams at Providence, 1636* last of the thirteencolonies to ratify the Constitution, which it did in 1790.. Area, 1,250 square miles; extreme length, north and south, 47miles; extreme width, 40 miles. Good harbors at Providence,Bristol, Warren and Newport, the latter one of the finest in theworld. Number counties, 5. Temperature at Newport: Winter, 29° to 43°; summer, 64° to 71°:rainfall, 43 inches. United States customs districts at Newport, Providence, Bristoland Warren; two capitals. Providence and Newport; populations,117.628 and 19,552. Population of Lincoln, 17,2H9; of Pawtucket,22,894; of Warwick, 13,284; of Woonsocket, 16,145. Nuniber farms, 6,2161 Hay the most valuable crop; yield of 1883,81,708tons; potato crop, 845,185 bushels; corn crop, 1884, 890,000bushels; oats. 1

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