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Show .MISSISSIPPI VAIitEiV-' y 'i.4V 1 tf ""ii' v,V !.. y- fTE ;settlement. ,tho vMissisMppt, Yallby began in 17T8,'in which -ycar the firsboloriyifdr ;nnited 'company,' o emigrants, landcdJat:MariettaVin;.Ohio.; Theyhad'CrossedthoxAlleghanib Brpwnstone, on the MbndngahelaV and then embarked, ogji;; flatibpatlor '"arfc and floated d.owla! to ,tjid mouth, of the Muskingtfm. TivcrV' 'T&y 'crdjhold and;dotcrmincd;Mcn Sdfuated by the principlds df -truth,' virtue, 'and iiir duBtry. .From thtai vgcrnt in fifteen years arose thq State of Ohio. Since 1808, wcn Ohio was received, ten more States' ha vo lieen admitted in the TJriion, fronting pnthat river, eight on its west and two on its' "east banks", nameiyJiouisnaaiana'r'i:iUHO4 Jylisspuri, Mississippi, Arkansasjllichi- f"itn, Wisconsin, rowa,anMinnesdtai . bsldca thd'Territdribs, dnq "ofwhich, naqly,;"Kansas,j3'" nearly eadyfbi Admittance " - ' ,f " - v ; ,j 'JiV hilpiiheso developments liavOpbeOii pirig on ilk tho' jrcstj-ond southwest, Aiahaipa,! Mainej:and 3?l0riila, InlHlic casV.dnd .Calif drnia?;arid 'Oregnj'ol thoTacifiq coast, liavebco'iSi admitted; Addingi to thestf. the primal ;trid of; Ycfe morit KontubkyV andilTcnuossed, ,ani3 tho. Jncreaso.of States iirt-.- sixty-one ycars'is "prcpisely twenty,, an equal incrcaso marks 4 tho , coming, sixty-one years,' wo shairst'and in, l92pf kt. fiftyw thred States,' with'a population' of one hundred and twenty, millions. Tho States. |