of these mountains range between the Arkansaw and Red Rivers, and form the source of the Osage. These are the most important ranges of mountains in the United States, and give rise to the principal rivers; the other numerous mountains may be seen in the several Geographies, and Atlasses, common to our country. Government. This may be denominated a Republican Confederacy, united under one grand republican system, and the whole formed upon the elective, or representative plan. Religion. All religions that do not infringe upon good order, and the laws, are tolerated in the United States. Literature. I have compressed this article into the following table, which will shew the principal seminaries of learning in the United States. Universities founded, Academies instituted, &c. AMERICAN academy of arts and sciences in Massachusetts, May 4, 1780. Brown university, Rhode-Island, 1770. Bacon academy, Connecticut, 1803. Burlington college, Vermont, 1791. Baltimore college, 1807. Cambridge, New England, 1630, called Harvard college, founded by John Harvard. Cok sbury college, Maryland, 1785. College of physicians at Philadelphia, 1787. Columbian college, New York, 1787. Divinity college, Massachusetts, 1808. Dartmouth college, 1769. Dickenson college, Pennselvania, 1783. Franklin college, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1787. Greenville college, Tennessee, 1794. Georgia university, 1785. Henrico, Virginia, 1619. Massachusetts' academies in number forty-eight, exclusive of the grammar and other schools in the various townships, 1812. New-England colleges, the graduates in 1807 were 200. Nassan Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, 1738. North Carolina "niversity, 1789. Pennsylvania university, 1779. Philadelphia academy, 1753. Rhode Island college, 1764. St. John's college, Annapolis, 1784. St. Mary's college, Baltimore, 1804. Transylvania university, Lexington, Kentucky, 1798. Washington college, Chester-town, Maryland, 1782. Williamstown college, Massachusetts, 1793. Hamilton college., Population.-See the following table. CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES. All other shire, STATES. Years Males. Females. free per- Slaves. Total. New-Hamp- 1790 70,937 70,160 1800 91,258 93,740 1810105,782 107,508 1810229,742 235,561 New-York, 1790 161,822 152,320 4,654 21,324340,120. 1300237,094 268,122 10,374 20,613436,203 1810474,352,444,518 25,333 15,017959,220 New-Jersey, 1790 86,667 83,287 2,762 11,423 184,139 1800 98,645 95,600 4,402 12,422,211,069 1810115,057111,504 Pennsylva- 1790217,736 206,363 nia, 7,843 10,851 245,255 6,537 1800 301,467 300,898 14,574 Delaware, 1790 23,926 22,384 3,899 States. Years Males. Females. free per- Slaves. l'otal. Virginia, Maryland, 1790 107,254 101,395 Ohio, 1810111,763 104,112 Mississippi 1806 2,907 2,272 Orleans Ter. 1810 sons. 8,043 103,036319,728 398 29,264 82,548 114 12,430 73,677 1,896 309 13,584 105,602 182 3,489 8,850 607 3,011 20,845 9,387 7,840 120 Illinois 1810 6,380 5,121 613 Dist. of Col. 1810 24 4,762 NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. NAMES AND FORCE OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. Antiquites and Curiosities.- Under this head are to be ranked those remarkable mounds and fortifications which are yet to be seen throughout the vast interior of the United States, together with the engravings upon the flat rocks of the Enchanted Mountains, (so called,) in the state of Tennessee; and other inscriptions found on large flat rocks in the western country. REMARKS. These are the records of ages that are past beyond the bounds of the remotest tradition, and hang suspended on the field of conjecture in the age in which we live. I have promised to solve this mystery, in its place, and 1 will now attempt it. It will be recollected, that in the Introductory Remarks of this work, it was noticed, that the art of Navigation had its rise among the Phoenicians and Egyptians, about 2000 years before Christ, and that this was conducted by the way of coasting adventure for about 3,300 years, down to the time of the discovery of the magnetism, and the mariner's compass, in the 14th century; and that, in the course of this time, this coasting adventure had led to the discovery of the shores of the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic shores of Europe generally, and that the whole continent of Africa had been circumnavigated. Now it is presumed that in the multitude of these adventures, some of them were blown off the coast, and were driven by the trade winds across the Atlantic, and formed the settlement at Mexico; for this would be the point where the trade winds and the Gulf Stream would naturally land them. To support this conjecture take the following facts. The Phoenicians and Egyptians worshipped the sun, had the art of embalming their dead, possessed the arts extensively, and practised human sacrifice. All these were common to the Mexicans when they were conquered by Cortes. I place no further confidence in the tradition delivered by Montezuma to Cortez, "that his ancestors came from the remote regions of the east, and settled that empire; and that their descendants should come at some future day and take possession of the empire," than as it serves for one link in the chain by which my conjectures are united. These points being settled, let us pursue the colonies of these people up the Mississippi, and examine their attempts |