Author : F. Killenberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1332128351
F. Killenberger's Pocket Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey (Classic Reprint) by F. Killenberger Pdf
Excerpt from F. Killenberger's Pocket Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey One of the Middle Atlantic States and one of the original thirteen, is bounded N. by New York, E. by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, S. by the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay, and W. by the Delaware Bay and River, which separate it from Delaware and Pennsylvania. It covers an area of 7815 square miles, its greatest length being 167 1/2 miles from lat. 38 56' to 41 21' N., with an extreme breadth of 59 miles in W. Ion. 73 5 ' and 75 33'. At the narrowest point, between Bordentown and South Amboy, the State is about 35 miles in width. It has a direct coast line of 120 miles, and besides its bordering rivers, the Hudson and Delaware, its principal streams are the Passaic, Hackensack, and Raritan. Topographically New Jersey is characterized by three well marked divisions. The northern portion of the State is hilly and mountainous, being traversed in a direction S. E. and N. W. by the Blue or Kittatinny and the Highland ranges of mountains, the former of which rise to an altitude of 1800 feet near the New York line, and thence form an unbroken ridge to "the Delaware Water Gap," while the latter reach their highest point at Rutherford's Hill or Hamburg Mountain, which is 1488 feet above the sea. Between these ranges lies the beautiful and fertile Kittatinny Valley, about 39 miles in length by 10 in breadth, and at an elevation of from 500 to 650 feet. Some twenty miles east of the Highland Range the Palisades, a wall of perpendicular trap-rocks, from 200 to 500 feet high, stretch along the western bank of the Hudson for 15 miles, forming one of the grandest features of its scenery. The central portion of the State is a rolling country, and the remaining three-fifths extending south and eastward, are nearly level, the Navesink Hills opposite Sandy Hook, 375 feet above the sea, being the principal elevations. Much of the southern part is sandy and covered by pine forests. The five geological belts crossing the State from N. E. to S. W. abound in mineral wealth. The Silurian and Devonian formations of the N. W. furnish large quantities of excellent roofing-slate, building and flagstones, magnesian limestone and rich hematites. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
