Excerpt from Darby's Universal Gazetteer: A Dictionary, Geographical, Historical, and Statistical, of the Various Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Cities, Towns, Ports, Harbors, Rivers, Lakes, Seas, Mountains &C., In the World; Articles Relating to the United States Have Been Very Largely Expanded In this edition, at page 294, under the head of Earth, will be found a table of the superficial area of the Zones of ten degrees in breadth, by the aid of which, it may be seen that the whole zones of North America, between north latitude 30 and comprise not quite three and a half millions of English square miles, and exceed very little the area of Europe. Also at the end of the volume, several valuable Tables. If the Author has departed from the exact rule proper to a general treatise, it was done in 'ving a more ample space to the Central States and Territories of the Unite States than to those of the Atlantic border, but the reasons why are stated. It has been the sedulous endeavor of the Editor to render his production a. Safe and commodious book of reference, and as free from either omission or mistake as the present state of the science would admit. 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.