596. Senators. The Senators are chofen by electors for four years. The qualified voters choose in each county, a number of perfons equal to the number of reprefentatives to which the county is entitled. These are the electors of the fenators. They must be twenty-feven and have refided in the state three years. years of age, The fenators must have attained the fame age and been refident in the ftate for two years.

597. Voters. All free male citizens of legal age, who have refided in the ftate for two years, or in the county in which they offer to vote, one year before the election, are qualified to vote for reprefentatives and electors.

598. Executive. The governor of Kentucky is chosen by the electors of the Senate, at the time and place of chufing fenators, and he holds his office likewise for four years. He must be thirty years of age, and have been a citizen and an inhabitant of the ftate for two years. He has power to remit fines and forfeitures, and to grant pardons and reprieves. In cafe of death or refignation, his office devolves on the fpeaker of the fenate.

599. Judiciary. The judicial power is lodged in a fupreme court and fuch inferior courts as the legislature may establish. The judges are appointed by the governer and fenate and hold their offices during good behavior, but may be removed by the governor, on the address of two thirds of both branches of the General Affembly.

600. Other Officers. Sheriffs and coroners are elected by the citizens, and hold their offices for three years, but are not eligible for the fucceeding three years. The treasurer is appointed by the joint ballot of both houses of the legiflature. Field and staff officers of the militia are appointed by the governor, except batallion Raff officers who are appointed by the field officers of each battallion. Most of the civil officers are appointed by the governor and fenate.

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TENNESSEE.

601. Situation. Tenneffee is fituated in the thirty-fifth and thirty-fixth degrees of north latitude, and extends from the middle of the eighty-fecond degree to the Miffifippi, in the ninety-fecond degree of weft longitude.

602. Bounds. This ftate has North-Carolina on the eaft, the Miffifippi territory on the fouth, Kentucky on the north, and the Miffifippi on the west. It was formerly a part of North-Carolina; ceded by that ftate to congrefs in 1789, and formed into a state, and received into the union in 1796.

603. Extent. The length of Tennessee is about three hundred and fifty miles, and the bredth one hundred. Its area is therefore about thirty-five thoufand fquare miles, containing upwards of twenty-two millions of acres.

604. Mountains. On the eaft, are the different ridges which are a continuation of the mountains in Virginiafome of them of ftupendous fize and elevation. The chief are the Stone mountain, the Yellow, the Iron, the Bald, the Clinch and Cumberland. The latter penetrates into the center of the ftate. The mountains are numerous and many of them not capable of cultivation.

605. Rivers. The Tennessee river, from which the ftate is named, is one of the largest rivers in the United States. It proceeds from the mountains on the east, and winding between the vaft ridges of the Cumberland mountain on one fide, and the Bald and Iron mountains on the other, finds its way to the Ohio. It is navigable for ships of burden, two hundred and fifty miles, to the Muscle fhoals, and boatable nine hundred miles to Tellico block-houfe. The chief branches of this river, are the Clinch, the Holfton, the French, Broad and Duck rivers. The Cumberland enters this ftate on the north, and waters a large tract of land; then re-enters Kentucky,

606. Climate and Soil. Tenneffee enjoys a very mild and temperate climate; and is diftinguished for the falubrity of its air. The foil, except the barren and inacceffible mountains, is generally fertile ; producing all the spe

cies of grain, plants, roots, and fruits, which are found in fimilar latitudes.

607. Chief Productions. The staple commodities are cotton, wheat, and maiz, which are very productive.The foil is covered with timber of the best kinds-the rivers abound with fish--the forests with buffaloes, deer, and other animals, and the country is well furnished with falt fprings, iron ore, fulphur, faltpeter and lead.

Counties and Towns.

608. Tenneffee is laid out into fix districts, and in 1800, there were eighteen counties. The principal towns are Knoxville on the Holfton, which is the feat of government, and Nashville on the Cumberland, which was named after General Nafh, who fell in the battle of Germantown, and is the feat of the courts in Mero diftrict.

609. Inhabitants. The first settlers of Tennessee were emigrants from the western fettlements in Pennsylvania and Virginia. A few families attempted a fettlement in 1754, but were driven away or destroyed. The first effectual attempt was in 1765, on the Watauga, a branch of the Holfton. The number of inhabitants in 1795, was seventy-feven thousand perfons: in 1800, the _number was one hundred and fix thousand, of which thirteen thousand five hundred were flaves.

610. Commerce. By means of the Tenneffee and Cumberland, navigation is opened from the Miffifippi into the inland parts of this state ; and the cotton, wheat, flour, tobacco, fkins and lumber may be easily tranfported to New-Orleans. The only port of entry in the ftate is Palmyra.

611. Learning and Religion. Several fchools are ef tablished in this ftate, and by law, provifion is made for three colleges. There is alfo a fociety for promoting ufeful knowledge. The inhabitants are of various religious denominations, of which the prefbyterians are faid to be the most numerous. Minifters of the gospel are precluded from a feat in the legislature; and no person denying the being of a God, and a future ftate of rewards and punishment can hold any civil office.

612. Government. By the conftitution of Tenneffee, established February 6, 1796, the legislature confifts of two branches, a fenate and houfe of reprefentatives, cho-. fen for two years, and called the General Affembly.

613. Qualifications. The fenators and reprefentatives. are elected in districts, and must be of lawful age; each muft poffefs two hundred acres of land, in the county in which he is chofen, and must have refided three years in the ftate, and one year in the county. The electors must be of age, possess a freehold in the county, and be inhabitants of the ftate; and inhabitants in the county fix months before the election.

614. Executive. The executive power is lodged in a governor chofen by the people who must be twenty-five years of age; poffeffed of a freehold of five-hundred acres of land, and have been a citizen or inhabitant of the Rate for four He holds his office for two years, but cannot hold it more than fix years in eight. He has power to grant pardons and reprieves after conviction. In cafe of his death, refignation or removal, his place is fupplied by the fpeaker of the fenate.

years.

615. Judiciary. The judicial power is vefted in fuch courts as the legiflature may establish. The judges of law and equity, and the attorneys of the ftate, are ap pointed by the joint ballot of both houfes, and hold their offices during good behavior. The judges of the fuperior court receive a fixed falary, and no fees or perquifites.. Sheriffs, coroners and conftables are appointed by the County courts.

616. Other Officers. The treafurer of the ftate is appointed by the legiflature, for two years. The foldiers in a company chufe the captains and inferior officers. The foldiers in a county, elect field officers. Brigadier gene als are chofen by the field officers of their respective brigades; and major generals, by the brigadiers and field officers of the divifions. The adjutant general is appointed by the governor.

OHIO.

The state of Ohio

617. Situation of the State of Ohio. lies between the western limit of Pennsylvania, and a meridian line drawn from the mouth of the Great Miami, to its northern limit, which limit is an eat and weft line touching the fouthernmost part of the lake Mifhigan. On the fouth it is washed by the river Ohio from which it derives its name,

618. Extent. Ohio extends from a few minutes west of the eightieth degree of longitude, about five degrees, and from about the middle of the thirty-ninth degree of latitude, to the forty-third. Its length from caft to weft, is two hundred and twenty-three miles; its bredth on the western border is two hundred and fifteen miles and on the eastern, one hundred and fixty five. Its mean bredth is one hundred and ninety miles. It contains forty-two thousand five hundred fquare miles, and more than twenty-feven millions of acres.

619. Face of the State. The fouth-eaftern part of Ohio confifts of hilly land, interfperfed with rich intervals or bottoms. The middle and western parts from the Sciota are a level country, very fertile and abounding with prairies, or flat lands deftitute of wood. The hilly parts are esteemed the most healthy. There are no ele vations which deserve the name of mountains, and it is noted that the rough broken lands are all adjacent to the

rivers..

620. Rivers. The chief rivers are the Big Beaver, Muskingum, Sciota, Great Miami, Little Miami, and Hockhocking, which discharge their waters into the Ohio: the St. Jofeph which falls into Michigan; the Sandusky, and the Cayohoga, which fall into Erie: but there are many other streams. During the fummer, this ftate, like all level countries, fuffers from a failure of the ftreams, which become very low, and nearly ftagnant. Nor do the rivers furnish falls of water for good mill feats in convenient abundance.

621. The Soil, Productions and Minerals. The foil of this ftate is for the most part, a loam, or light earth,

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