Excerpt from A Gazetteer of the State of New-York: Comprising Its Topography, Geology, Mineralogical Resources, Civil Divisions, Canals, Railroads and Public Institutions, Together With General Statistics, the Whole Alphabetically Arranged; Also, Statistical Tables, Including the Census of 1840 The State of new-york lies between 40 30' and 45? North lati tude, and between 5 05' east, and 2 55' west longitude from the City of Washington. Its extreme length, east and west, including Long Island, is 408 miles. Leaving Long Island out of View, it is only 340 miles. Its greatest breadth north and south, is 310 miles. The area of the whole surface, excepting the waters of the great lakes, is estimated at acres, or square miles the entire area being square miles. The State is bounded south-east by the Atlantic Ocean, south by New Jersey and Pennsylvania; west by Pennsylvania, Lake Erie and Niagara river; north west by Lake Onta rio and St. Lawrence river; north by the British possessions in Cana da, and east by Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut. 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."