The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-26 00:00:00

NEW ENGLAND.

THE S'•:ites East of New York were formerly
, called the, New England Colonies ;:they are still
known by tile general name of New England.
Boundaries.—New England is bounded North, by
Canada, East by Noya Scotia and the Atlantic
Ocean, South by. the Atlantic-.and Lonb Island
Sound, and West by New Yotk. It lies in the
form of a
.quarter of a‘circle. Its West line,' be-
ming at the month of Byram river, which emp-
ties into Long' Island Sound at the Southwest,
corner of Connetlicut,. latitude 4r. runs a little
East of North until it strikes the 45th deg. of lati-
tude, and then curyes.to the Eastward almost to the
Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Situation and extent.—Length 350 miles, breadth
r4o miles, between 41. and 46 North latitude r. 30.
and 80. East longitude.
Civil Divisions.-=--.New England is divided into
five States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusets,
Rhode Island, Conneaitut, and Vermont.

New England is a high, hilly, and in some parts
a mountainous country, formed by Nature' to he ih-
habited by a hardy race of Independent' Repub-
licans ; the mountains are comparatively Striall;l-tin-
ning-nearly North and South in ridges 'parallel to
each other : between them flow the great rivers in
majestic meanders, receiving the innumerable( rieu-
lets and larger streams\ which proceed from the
mountains -on each side. -To a speaator .on the top.
of a neighbouring mountain the vales exhibit, ‘rhile
in a state of nature, a romantic aspea ; they seem
an ocean of woods, swelled ,and depreSsed on the
surface like that ofthe great ocean itself. A richer
view is presented-when the vallies have been clear,
ed of their natural exuberances by the industrious
husbandmen—then the result of their .lahour is ma-
nifested in ilbaded orchards, extensive meaddws co-
vered with large herds of sheep and neat cattle, and.
fields decorated with flax, corn, .and the various
order of grain.
• These ranges of mountains.-are full of '01,7.0,
ponds, and springs of water, that give birch to
numberless streams, which, interlocking-each other
in every direaion, and falling- over the rocks in
sparkling: cascades, flow in beautiful irregularity
into the rivers below, No country in, the universe
is better Watered than New England : on the sea-
coast the land is. low, and in many parts level,
sandy, and rocky.
The only river which will be described under the'
head of New England, is Connelicut river.—lt
rises in a swamp on, the height of land in latitude
4.e.. so. longitude .. East. After a steepy course
of eight or ten miles, it tumbles over four separate
falls, and turning‘West keeps 'close- under the hills
which form the Northern boundary of the vale.
through which it runs. The Amonasuch and,lsrael
rivers, fall into it from the East, between the lati-
tudes 4.4.. and 4.e. Between the towns of Walpole;
on the East, and Westminster, On the West side•of
the river,
.are the great falls. The whole river,
compressed _between two rocks scarcely thirty.; feet.
asunder, shoots with amizing rapidity into a broad
hason below. Over these falls a bridge, one hun-
dred and, sixty feet in length, was built ih• 1184.,,
under which the highest floods may pass svithout.tie-
triment. This is the first bridge 'that was ereCted
over this noble river.-"lts length, in a- straight line,
is nearly three hundred miles. Its.general course is.
several degrees .West of South. It is nearly one
hundred rods,-wide, one- hundred and thirty miles
from its mouth.

Trade.—New England has no particular staple
commodity. The ocean and the forests afford the
two principal articles of export. Codfish, macka-
rel„ shad, salmon, and other fish ; whale oil and
whale—bone s masts, boards, scantling, stoves, hoops,
and shingles, have., been, and are still exported in
large quantities. - .17116 annual amount' of cod and
other fish, for foreign exportation, including the
profits arising from the whale fishery, is estimated
at upwards of half a million of dollars.
Besides the articles enumerated, they export from
the various Ports of New England, ships built for
sale,-horses, mules, live stock, pickled.beef' and
pork, pot-ash, pear Lash, flax-Seed, butter and cheese,
New England distilled rum, &c.