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TABLE OF THE COUNTIES AND COUNTY TOWNS. — Continued.
Counties.
Population.
County Towns.
Jackson
ne
12,702
( Bellefonte
( Woodville
172
185
Jefferson
m
6,855
Elyton
59
Lauderdale
nw
11,782
Florence
146
Lawrence
n
14,984
Moulton
102
Limestone
n
14,848
Athens
130
Lowndes
9,421
Lowndes C. H.
138
Madison
n
28,011
Huntsville
155
Marengo
sm
7,742
Linden
78
Marion
nw
4,058
Pikeville
118
Mobile
sw
3,071
| Mobile
226 '
Mobile, city
3,194
Monroe
sm
8,780
Clairborne
157
Montgomery
sm
12,694
Montgomery
119
Morgan
n
9,053
Somerville
135
Perry
m
11,509
Perry C. H.
61
Pickens
w
6,620
Pickens
48
Pike
se
7,103
Pike C. H.
179
St. Clair
nem
5,975
Ashville
129
Shelby
m
5,521
Shelbyville
73
Tuscaloosa
m
13,646
Tuscaloosa
Walker
nm
2,202
Walker C. II.
47
W ashington
sw
3,478
Washington C. H.
146
Wilcox
sm
9,469
Canton
113
36 Total
308,997,
of whom 117,294 are slaves.
Population at different Periods,
Population.
In 1810, less
than 10,000
1816,
29,683
1818,
70,542
Slaves.
1820,
127,901
In 1820,
41,879
1827,
244,041 Increase
1827,
93,008
1830,
308,997 From 1820 to 1830, 181,096
1830,
117,294
The principal rivers are the Alabama , Tombigbee, Black Warrior, Coosa,Tallapoosa, Tennessee , Chatahoochce, Perdido, and Cahawba .
The southern, part of the country, which borders on the gulf of Mexico andWest Florida, for the space of 50 miles wide, is low and level, covered withpine, cypress, and loblolly ; in the middle it is hilly, with some tracts of openland; the northern part is somewhat broken and mountainous, and the countrygenerally is more elevated above the sea, than most other parts of the United States at equal distance from the ocean. The Aileghany mountains terminatein the north-east part. The forest trees in the middle and northern part con-sist of black and white oak, hickory, poplar, cedar, chestnut, pine, mulberry, &c.
Alabama possesses great diversity of soil, climate, natural, vegetable, andmineral productions. Occupying the valley of the Mobile, and its tributarystreams, together with a fine body of land on both sides of the Tennessee river,its position in an agricultural and commercial point of view is highly advan-tageous. A considerable portion of that part of the state which lies betweenthe Alabama and Tombigbee, of that part watered by the Coosa and Talla-poosa, and of that on the Tennessee , consists of very excellent land. On the
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