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Title: The history and topography of the United States of America
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Hinton, John Howard, 1791-1873
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Publisher: London and New York : J. Tallis and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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THE UNITED STATES. iSr, becomes milder th:iii it is to the eastward. In the western part, contiguous to I akesOntario and Erie, the temperature is moderated by these waters, and does not go to the same extremes as in the south-cast. The chmate of the whole state is in generalhealthy, and favourable to cultivation. At Salina, in Onondago county, about thirtymiles from Utica, are the celebrated salt springs and salt works, which yield about500,000 bushels of salt annually, and the manufacture may be extended to anyquantity. The turnpike roads are numerous: the most important is the great westernturnpike, leading from Albany to Canandaigua, a distance of 196 miles. Thegreat canal connecting Lake Erie with the Hudson was completed in 1825, andis 360 miles long. The route is as follows: beginning at Albany, on the Hudson, itpasses up the west bank of that river, nearly to the mouth of the Mohawk; thengenerally along the south bank of the Mohawk, through the counties of Albany,Schenectady, M

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