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A NEW
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COMPREHENSIVE
GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA,'
AND THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:
CONTAINING
A COPIOUS COLLECTION OF
GEOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, COLLECTED AND COMPILED FROM THE MOST RESPECTABLE, AND CHIEFLY FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES :
BY JOSEPH MARTIN.
€ TO WHICH IS ADDED A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1751:
WITH AN ABSTRACT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS FROM THAT PERIOD TO THE
INDEPENDENCE OF VIRGINIA,
WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE WORK
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CHARLOTTESVILLE : PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH MARTIN. MOSELEY & TOMPKINS, PRINTERS.
1913,
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Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1835, BY JOSEPH MARTIN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Jan. free peer. 1. 1835
TO
THE MEMBERS
OF THE
VIRGINIA HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:
GENTLEMEN,
Excuse the liberty I take in asking the protection of your name, for a work which I am compelled to throw upon the world under the most inauspicious circumstan- ces. You seem to constitute the most appropriate body, to which I can look for aid in perfecting the great work which I have undertaken, and of which this imperfect es- say constitutes the first fruit. To render a work of this description a perfect picture of the moral and political condition of a state, and a faithful record of its progress to its present condition, the efforts of no single individual can be adequate ; but the united and persevering exertion of a number of gentlemen associated for the express pur-
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pose of investigating and developing the resources of the state, and finding and preserving the records of its histo- ry, are absolutely necessary. I now venture to call your attention to the first work which has ever appeared since the publication of Mr. Jefferson's notes, which professed to embrace all which could be ascertained of the present situation of Virginia, and some investigation of its past history. That materials for a much more copious detail of both subjects exists, no one can doubt, but with the hope that the information here collected may not be alto- gether useless, I venture to ask the protection of your countenance,
And remain, gentlemen, With the greatest respect, Your most obedient And most humble Servant, JOSEPH MARTIN.
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PREFACE.
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WE are well aware that it is considered by critics to be an act of unpardonable impertinence to obtrude an imperfect work upon the notice of the public, and then apologize for its imperfections. But we beg leave to as- sure their cynical Lordships that this is no meat for them, and of course they need not whet their beaks at our an- nouncement of its imperfections. Our apology is not made to deprecate their wrath, but in deference to a gen- erous public, which will be thankful to the enterprize which gives it a mass of information which was not pos- sessed before, and not cavil because every fact is not given which exists, or those which are given are not in the very best form in which they could have been presented,
'The publisher of this work lays claim to no literary at- tainment whatever: he only claims the merit due to bold- ness in enterprize and unconquerable perseverance in execution. He has been upwards of two years col- lecting the materials for this work, from individuals re- siding in every quarter of the state, expending much money in the acquisition of his matter, at a time when he was scarcely able to support his family. But this method of collecting matter, although it produced considerable delay, ensured the most recent and authentic informa- tion which could be procured. The almost innumerable contributions when received had to be examined and ar- ranged, and such parts as were thought either useful or in- teresting, culled from the mass of unnecessary matter which sometimes encumbered the communications .- When this was done, and the publisher thought he had obtained such an amount of information as would be highly useful, although it would not form a perfect Gazetteer of
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Virginia, he resolved to publish and rely upon subse- quent editions to make up the deficiencies. But here a new difficulty occurred :- without credit and without capi- tal, it seemed impossible to find an individual to print, or one to edit the book.
The huge mass of undigested manuscript was presented to several literary gentlemen, who shrunk from the task of arranging so voluminous a collection of ill-written man- uscript, upon the contingency of being paid by the sale of the work. At length, however, a young man who had no experience in such matters was induced to undertake it, but his occasional absence and necessary attention to other business, added to a most illegible chirography caused many errors of the press which it was out of his power to correct. The printers also were new in their business, and not prepared for conducting it with that at- tention to neatness and accuracy which was desirable. But although there are many glaring typographical er- rors, which the editor could not correct, because he did not see the proof sheets, it is believed that very few of them effect the sense, and still fewer falsify statements of fact.
The publisher has at length struggled through difficul- ties, which often seemed insuperable to less persevering men, and now presents the work to the public, if not as. perfect as it might be, yet certainly as perfect as he could at this time make it.
The publisher feels it his duty to render the most grateful acknowledgments to the many individuals who have rendered him assistance in the collection of mate- rials ; and begs leave to mention the names of a few lite- rary gentlemen to whose kindness he is under especial obligation,-among these are Messrs. James E. Ileath of Richmond, Lewis Summers of Kanawha, Lucien Minor of Louisa, J. R. W. Dunbar of Winchester, Thomas S. Plea- sants of Goochland, W. G. Minor of Caroline, J. R. Fitz- hugh of Stafford, R. L. Cook of Augusta, Archibald Stu- art of Patrick, Linn Banks, of Madison, William Shultice of Mathews, A. Sparks of Southampton, F. Mallory of Norfolk, II. L. Hopkins of Powhatan, J. Minor of Spott- sylvania, J. 11. Lee of Orange, Wm. Green of Culpeper,
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Wm. A. Harris of Page, R. B. Semple of King & Queen, Yeardlcy Taylor of Loudoun, Isaac Flesher of Jackson, Wm. Burk of Monroe; S. Philips of Bedford, J. D. Mc- Gill of Middlesex, N. M. Taliaferro of Franklin, G. W. G. Browne of Wythe, J. J. Williams of Frederick Wm. J. Williams of Charlotte, Joseph Jenney of. Prince William, James P. Carrell of Russell, B. F. Dabney of King William, Joseph Duff of Lee, James Garland of Nelson, Wm. Wilson of Bath, and Edgar Snowden of > Alexandria. Many more have sent in contributions well worthy of special notice, who have been perhaps as libe- ral as these gentlemen in the extent of their communica- tions, and the trouble they seem to have taken, but it would be difficult to know where to stop, if he was to publish the names of all to whom he is under obliga- tions. Such portions of the Gazetteer as are not original have been compiled from the Encyclopedia ,Americana, the Gazetteer of the United States, Elliott's District of Columbia, or Official Documents.
Apology is due for publishing the hasty composition which is called rather from its length than its character, a Ilistory of Virginia. The publisher promised in his pros- pectus between six and seven hundred pages, and all who saw his manuscript volumes supposed they would, unless very extensively curtailed overrun a thousand, but when the matter came to be edited and printed, it did not hold out as well as was supposed. This unfortunately could not be ascertained until the Gazetteer was through the press, and then it was necessary to fill it up with a niore extensive, instead of the concise, history which had been promised.
'The time was of course too limited, being written as fast as three active compositors could print, for the author' to have an opportunity to pay any attention whatever to his languge or style, or to digress upon the many topics which so invitingly offered, or turn his eyes for a moment to other colonies or countries. He was compelled to pro- ceed with the single isolated narrative of Virginia history,' and he trusts that the subject itself is so interesting that it' will be read even in his hasty sketch. Were he and his work not both infinitely too humble for criticism to hawk
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at, he would expect to be torn in pieces for the audacity of dignifying the hasty composition of little more than a fortnight, with the noble name of history; but he feels per- fectly secure in his insignificance, and if the insect swarin of little critics should be inclined to inflict their venomuos stings upon him, he can throw around himself a shield, which even their utmost fury cannot penetrate, and that is the consciousness that his hasty sketch was not written with the expectation of meeting with approbation as a philosophic treatise upon the history of Virginia, but merely with the hope of presenting a succinct and faithful narrative of the early events of the colony. This he has labored assiduously to effect, consulting every authority which it was possible to examine in so short a time ; and if on any subject, all is not said which might have been said, or all which is said is not true, he at least feels sure that he has respectable authority for every word he utters, and that he believes all to be true.
All the circumstances of the case, we doubt not with a liberal public, will ensure this first attempt to describe Virginia as it exists at the present day, a favorable recep- tion ; and it will respect the disposition and the enter- prize which has given them so much, rather than blame the stern poverty which would not allow the publisher to wait longer, without receiving some emolument. With the proceeds of this edition he expects to be able to sub- sist, until he can prepare a work more worthy of the noble state whose moral and physical attributes he dlelineates
It will be perceived that a new plan has been adopted in the arrangement. Instead of giving a continuous al- phabetical list of subjects and places, from the beginning to the end of the volume, by which means much repeti- tion must occur, and frequent references have to be made in order to obtain an account of any county or section of country ; the work is divided into three parts, first a gene- ral description of the moral and physical character of the whole state is given, and then of the two great portions, castern and western Virginia separately, and under these latter heads a general description is given of each county, in alphabetical order, and under each county an alphabeti- cal list of the most remarkable places it contains ; a gene-
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ral alphabetical index at the end completes the system. The object of this arrangement was to present to the mind each separate portion of country at once, in a connected view, so that the reader at a distance might form as good an idea of the state of improvement in each county, as if he were on the spot, which it would be impossible to do, if each little place was scattered through the book in a gen- eral alphabetical arrangement, whilst it was thought that the general index would make it as convenient for pur- poses of mere reference as it would be under the old sys- tem.
The same wish to present a connected view, and the dif- ferent characteristics which distinguish Eastern and Wes- tern Virginia, produced the division of the state into these two portions.
It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the necessity which existed for such a work, it has been felt by every traveller, man of business, and literary man in the community ; and the information here collected, existed for the most part . only in the minds of those who have contributed it. The desideratum is not yet however fully supplied, as no indi- vidual has been found willing to contribute the informa- tion, which was wanting with regard to many of the coun- ties; but this it is hoped may be obtained in time for another edition. With a hope that what is already accom- plished will meet the expectations and approbation of those who have so liberally patronized him, the work is for the present dismissed.
BY THE PUBLIȘIIER.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Dedication,
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Preface,
List of tables, -
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List of errata,
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Table of abbreviations,
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General Description of Virginia,
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Situation, boundaries, and extent,
ib.
Face of the country,
ib.
Geology and Mineralogy,
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Mineral waters,
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Scenery and Natural Curiosities,
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Mountains,
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Bays, harbors, rivers, swamps,'
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Climate,‹
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Political and moral condition,
Population,
Government and laws,
66 69
Civil list,
72
Laws,
75
Religion,
76
Education,
77
Military organization, arms, &c.
83
Lunatic hospitals, '
85
Penitentiary,
ib. 87 99
Agriculture,
ib. 100
Commerce,
101
Revenue,
103
Banks,
104
Remarks on arrangement pursued in description of counties, Eastern Virginia,
111
Western Virginia-Introduction, General Description, .
297
299
Virginia House of Delegates, . Senate, .
470
District of Columbia,
471
Establishment, situation, boundaries, and extent, Soil,
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(ieology and Mineralogy, -
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Clinate,
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Fiscal concerns, .
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Internal Improvement,
Manufactures,
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District of Columbia.
PAGE.
Aborigines,
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Population,
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Government,
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ib.
Alexandria, .
477
Fisheries on the Potomac,
480
Water Fowl on the Potomac,
482
Washington City,
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Congressional Districts of Virginia, -
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Electoral Districts,
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Virginia Election Laws,
515
Ratification of U. S. Constitution,
523
Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776,)
ib.
Table exhibiting the population, &c. &c. &c. .
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HISTORY OF VIRGINIA.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION, PROGRESS OF COMMERCE, ROANOKE SETTLEMENTS. Merit of discovering America,-Advancement of Commerce by the Crusades-in the Italian cities-in Spain-in Portugal,-Dis- covery of America .- England,-Want of Commerce in early times, -Voyages of the Cabots,-Progress of English discovery,-Fro- bisher-Gilbert-Raleigh,-Failure of the Roanoke settlements, ....... 531
CHAPTER I1.
SETTLEMENT AT JAMES TOWN,-SUFFERINGS OF THE COLONISTS,- ADVENTURES OF SMITH .- New Company raised-its charter, -- James Town,-Machinations against Smith, -Difficulties of the colony,-Smith taken prisoner-his release .- Arrival of Newport, -Discovery of earth believed to be gold,-Departure of Newport, -Survey of the Chesapeake and its waters by Smith, -Smith made President,-Second arrival of Newport,-Judicious conduct of Smith,-New Charter, -- New arrival of emigrants, -- Badness of the selection, -New settlements,-Accident to Smith-his departure, -his character,
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PROGRESS OF THE COLONY,-MASSACRE OF 1662, -- DISSOLUTION OF THE LONDON COMPANY .- State of the colony at Smith's depar- ture, -- its conduct and consequent sufferings, -- Arrival of Gates- of Lord De La Ware,-his departure .- Arrival of Dale, -Martial law,-Gates governor, -- Grants of land to individuals,-New char. ter,-Marriage of Pocahontas,-Friendly relations with the In- dians,-Subjection of Port Royal and Manhattan, -- Cultivation of 'Tobacco, -- Tenure of lands, -- Tyranny of Argall,-Propriety of reform in the government .- Yeardley governor, -- First colonial assembly in 1619 .- Introduction of women,-Introduction of ne- groes by the Dutch in 1620 .- Constitution brought over by Sir Francis Wyatt .-- Relations with the Indians, -- Massacre of the 22d of March, 1662,-its consequences, -- Struggles between the king and the company,-Commissioners sent to Virginia,-Firmness of the Virginians, -- Dissolution of the company,
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PROGRESS OF THE COLONY FROM THE DISSOLUTION OF THE LON- DON COMPANY, TO THE BREAKING OUT OF BACON'S REBELLION IN 1675 .- Accession of Charles I .- Tobacco trade, -- Yeardley governor,-his commission favorable-his death and character .- Lord Baltimore's reception,-State of religion,-legislation upon the subject,-Invitation to the Puritans to settle on Delaware Bay .- Harvey governor,-Error with regard to his carly administration,- Dismemberinent of the colony,-Grant of Carolina and Maryland, -probable cause of discontent .-- Harvey deposed-restored, -- Wyatt governor,-Acts of the Legislature improperly censured,- Berkeley governor,-Indian relations,-Opechancanough prisoner, -his death,-Change of government in England,-Fleet and army sent to reduce Virginia,-Preparation for defence by Berkeley,- Agreement entered into between the colony and the commissioners of the commonwealth,-Indian hostilities,-Matthews elected gover- nor,-Difficulties between the governor and the legislature,-adjust- cd,-State of the colony and its trade,-Commissioners sent to England,-The Restoration,-General legislation, -
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BACON'S REBELLION, -HOSTILE DESIGNS OF THE FRENCH .- Indif- ference to change in England,-Navigation act,-Convicts,-Con- spiracy detected,-Discontents, -- Cessation from tobacco planting for one year,-Royal grants, -- Virginia's remonstrance,-Success of: deputies,-Indian hostilities,-Army raised and disbanded by governor,-People petition for an army,-elect Bacon commander, . - he marches without commission and defeats Indians,-pursued by governor, who retreats on hearing of rising at James Town,- Governor makes concessions,-Bacon prisoner,-is pardoned .- People force commission from governor,-Bacon marches to meet Indians, -- hears he is declared a rebel by Berkeley, -- marches to meet him, -he flees to Accomac, -- Convention called and free go- vernment established .-- Bacon defeats the Indians,-Berkeley ob- tains possession of the shipping, and occupies James Town,-is beseiged by Bacon, and driven out, -- Jamestown burnt .- Death of: Bacon,-character of his enterprise .- Predatory warfare,-treaty between governor and his opponents,-Cruelty of Berkeley,- King's commissioners,-Departure of Berkeley and his death .- Acts of Assembly passed during Bacon's influence .- Conduct of king's commissioners,-Culpeper governor,-Discontents,-Con- duet of Beverly .-- Howard governor .-- General conduct of Vir- ginia and progress of affairs .- Plan of De Callier for dividing the British colonies, 599
Sketch of Virginia history from the beginning of the French war to the beginning of the Revolution, 618
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LIST OF TABLES.
Jefferson's and Watson's Meteorological observations,
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Population,
67
School Commissioners' Reports,
78
Militia and Arms,
83
Convicts,
86
Improvements contemplated,
Fund,
95 96% 101
Disbursements from 'l'reasury,
102
Revenue from each county, ·
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Banks,
104
Students of the University,
126
Tobacco trade of Lynchburg, Petersburg, and Richmond,
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Louisa population, .
219
Population of District of Columbia,
" of Alexandria,
476 479
of Georgetown,
494
= of Washington,
499
Costs of, Federal Buildings,
508
Table of Population, &c. &c. of each State,
528
Table of Time of Election, &c. &c.
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Receipts into Treasury,
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*** In this list only such errata are collected as effect the sense.
Page 69. 12 lines from the bottom for "erected" read "created."
67 and 68, the total population of Virginia is given as 1,211,375 instead of 1,211,405,-the error arises from an error in the column of Female Slaves, p. 68.
139. Top line, for "dram" read "dam."
151. Five lines from the top dele "HARVEY's STORE," repeated second time.
154. Top line, for "1778" read "1748."
160. Right hand column, 11th line from bottom, for "depulated" read "depopu- lated."
176. Left hand column, dele "Laurel Spring," which belongs to Albemarle, see p. 114.
215. Upperville is in the wrong place-transpose to Fauquier p. 174.
234. Right hand column, Lombardy Grove, distance from R. given twice-the last one is correct.
: 248. Right hand column, 10 lines from top, for "1,338" read "338."
275.
66 11 for "Baoad" read "Broad."
66 281. Left hand column, 12 66 for "Thomburg" read "Thorns- burg."
= 360. Four lines from bottom, for "Logan" read "Fayette."
$55. Left hand column, 18 lines from top, for "Ut lund inter minores sideres," read, -inter omnes
-velut inter ignes Luna minores,"
135. Left hand column, line 23d from top, for "August and September" read "April and August."
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ABBREVIATIONS.
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Distance from "W."
Co. "R"
- Post-Office. - Mntn: Post Village. Long. - - - Post Town. Latitude. Lat. Sq. ms. Square miles.
- miles. - Washington. 'The rest, such as N. E. W. S. &c. for the pomts of the compass are sufficiently mani- Test.
- Richmond.
County.
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Mountains.
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- Court House.
276. First line on top, for "1831" read "1833."
" Fifth line from top, for "Shenandoah" read "Page."
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GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA.
PRELIMINARIES.
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SITUATION, BOUNDARIES, AND EXTENT.
VIRGINIA was one of the original thirteen, and is now one of the twenty four United States of North America; it lies between 36° 31', and 40° 39' north latitude; and 6° 35' west, and 1º 48' east longitude from Washing- ton city: it is bounded on the north and northeast by Pennsylvania and Ma- ryland, east by the Atlantic ocean, south by North Carolina and Tennessee, and west by Kentucky and Ohio; its mean length from east to west is 355 miles, its mean breadth 185 miles, and its horizontal area 65,624 square miles. 'The Atlantic bounds Virginia, from the extreme south-eastern an- gle of Maryland, to the extreme north-eastern angle of North Carolina, a distance of 112 miles; North Carolina bounds it on the south, from the At- lantic west to the Iron Mountains, 340 miles; from this point the boundary runs along the Iron Mountains in a north-easterly direction, to the north- east angle of Tennessee, four miles; Tennessee then forms a border to the Cumberland mountains 110 miles; then Kentucky, along the Cumberland mountains to the Tug Fork of Sandy river, 110 miles; thence the boundary runs' down this stream to the Ohio 70 miles. The boundary follows the Ohio from the mouth afdung Base of Sandy, to the point at which it emerges from Pennsylvania, 355 miles; from this it runs south in common with the western border of Pennsylvania, 6@ miles, thence cast along its southern border to the north-western angle of Maryland, 58 miles; from this, south to the head of the north branch of the Potomac 36 miles; and down the Potomac to its mouth, 320 miles ; it then crosses the Chesapeake Bay, and runs east, along the southern boundary of Maryland to the Atlantic, 60 miles-presenting an entire outline of 1,635 miles.
FACE OF THE COUNTRY-Natural and Political Sections .- Virginia exceeds all of her sister States in territorial extent, and is perhaps the most strongly marked in her physical features. Like Maryland and North Caro- lina, she has her sea and alluvial section, below the head of tide-water; her middle and hilly section; and her central or mountainous section; but in Virginia a fourth section must be added, which may be called the western or Ohio section, its waters emptying into that stream.
'These four sections are so distinctly marked in their features as to be re- cognized in the fundamental law of the State, and must ever have important political and moral effects. Adopting the limits indicated in the new con- stitution, these four sections contain as follows, viz. First-The section from the sea coast to the head of tide-water, thirty-six counties, and three towns, to wit : Accomac, Caroline, Chesterfield, Charles City, Essex, Eli- zabeth City, Fairfax, Greensville, Gloucester, Hanover, Ilenrico, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, King William, King George, Lan- caster, Mathews, Middlesex, Nansemond, New Kent, Northumberland, Northampton, Norfolk, Princess Anne, Prince George, Prince William, Richmond, Southampton, Spottsylvania, Stafford, Surry, Sussex, Warwick, 3
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Westmoreland, York, and the city of Rohmond, borough of Norfolk, and town of Petersburg; which are all together entitled to 36 Representatives in the House of Delegates. Second .- The territory stretching from the head of tide-water to the Blue Ridge, contains 30 counties, to wit : Albe- marle, Amelia, Amherst, Bedford, Buckingham, Brunswick, Campbell, Charlotte, Cumberland, Culpeper, Dinwiddie, Fauquier, Fluvanna, Frank- lin, Goochland, Henry, Halifax, Loudon, Louisa, Lunenburg, Madison, Mecklenburg, Nelson, Nottoway, Orange, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Powhatan, Prince Edward, and Rappahannock, which together have 42 Representatives in the House of Delegates. Third-The Valley section contains 15 coun- ties, to wit : Augusta, Alleghany, Bath, Berkley, Bottetourt, Frederick, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Page, Pendleton, Rockingham, Rockbridge, and Shenandoah; which together elect 25 members of the House of Delegates. Fourth-The Trans-Alleghanv, or western section, contains. 30 counties, to wit : Brooke, Cabell, Fayette, Floyd, Grayson, Greenbrier, Giles, Harrison, Jackson, Montgomery, Monongalia, Kanawha, Lee, Lewis, Logan, Mason, Monroe, Nicholas, Ohio, Pocahontas, 'Preston, Randolph, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Tyler, Washington, Wood, and Wythe; which together elect 31 delegates to the House of Delegates.
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