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of ton Mass The vast region north of lat. 36°30 and between the valley
of the Mississippi and the Pacific coast was at the date of this
map (1803) unknown and unexplored by civilized man

In general terms all of the United
States west of the 980 tmeridian
is an almost rainless, desolate waste.
unfitted for agriculture with the
exception of a narrow belt of righ
lands in California and north or
a small part of Western Texas and
some narrow valleys in the Rocky
Mountains which are susceptible
of irrigation Mining in the Mountains
and cattle raising on the plains will be
the chief industries.
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New Mexico was

conquered by
the Spenards
in 1642

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Frankfort VIRGINIA

Lexington

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Nashville

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Norfolk

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Wilmington

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Savannah

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