Excerpt from The Tennessee Hand-Book and Immigrants Guide: Giving a Description of the State of Tennessee; Its Agricultural and Mineralogical Character; Its Waterpower, Timber, Soil, and Climate The United States of America are embraced in that vast region of country which commences at the great lakes on the borders of Canada, and which slopes gently to the borders of the equator. Two long chains of mountains, the Alleghany and the Rocky, divide this region from one extreme to the other, and between them lies the valley of the Mississippi. Of this valley De Tocqueville has said, that it is, upon the whole, the most magnificent dwelling-place prepared by God for man's abode. Tennessee is Situated in the southern, region of the slope just mentioned, and as, with a very slight exception, her rivers finally flow into the Mississippi, it belongs in this respect to that valley. Tennessee is one of the most central of the United States; it is bounded on the east by North Carolina; on the north by Kentucky and by a small portion of Virginia; on the west by Missouri and Arkansas; on the south by Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. It is four hundred and thirty miles in length, and one hundred and ten miles in breadth. Its southern line of latitude is its northern 36 It has square miles, and inhabitants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.