Excerpt from Resources of the State of Arkansas: With Description of Counties, Railroads, Mines, and the City of Little Rock Arkansas formed a part of the Louisiana territory. It was originally settled by the French in 1670. It was ceded in 1808 by France to the United States. According to Rev. F. Banks (reported in his Universal Geography, published during the reign of His Majesty George III), as exhibited by a map exe cuted by T. Bowen, geographer, 1111498, agreeable to treaty of 1784, Louisiana then extended from 20° to 40° north latitude. It was bounded on the north by the territory of the (wild) Indians, east by Florida, south by the Gulf of Mexico, and west by New Mexico, which is now known as Texas. In the French succeeded in making a few settlements, beside the Isle of Dauphine (mobile), eighty leagues east of the mouth of the Mississippi river. These 111 part were ceded to England by treaty of 1763; afterward by England (together with Flor ida) it was ceded to the Spaniards, according to treaty of 1783, including the rivers Mississippi, St. Francis, Black, and the Mobile, Isle of New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi, and the town of New Orleans, then the capital of Louisiana. 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.