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NEW FELICIANA, parish, La . boundedN. by Mississippi , E. by Amite river, or parishSt. Helena , S. by East Baton Rouge, and SW.by the Mississippi river. St. Francisville isthe only town worthy of notice. Pop. in 1820,12,732; in 1830, 16,876.
NEWFIELI), v. Tompkins co. N. Y. 210m. W. from Albany, 9 from Ithaca . Pop.2 , 66 - 1 .
NEWFIELI), t. York co. Me. 40 m. NNW.from York. Pop. 1,289.
NEWFOUND LAKE, lake, N. H. in He-bron, New Chester, Alexandria, and Bridge-water, 6 in. long from N. to S. and 2 j broad.
NEWFOUNDLAND , isl. on the E. coast ofN. America , between 47° and 52° N. lat. Itwas discovered by Sebastian Cabot in 1496,a»d, after many disputes with the French , itwas ceded to the English in 1713. It is of atriangular form, from 300 to 350 m. on a side.It has several harbors, and there are about 5or 600 English families settled here, besidethe garrison of St. John, Placentia, and otherforts. In the fishing season, which begins inMay and ends in September, it is resorted toby at least 10,000 people, on account of thecod fisheries on the banks near it.
NEWFOUND RIVER, r. N. H. whichflows from Newfound Lake, and after a south-erly course of 4 or 5 m. runs into the Merri-mack near Bristol.
NEWFOUND MILLS, v. Hanover co. Va.
NEW GARDEN, t Chester co. Pa .
NEW GARDEN, v. Robinson co. N. C.
NEW GARDEN, v. Columbiana co. Ohio .
NEW GENEVA, v. Fayette co. Pa .
NEW GEORGIA, islands, 12 in number,in the Polar sea, discovered in 1819, by Lieut .Parry. The largest is Melville Island .
NEW GERMANTOWN, v. Huntingdonco. N. J.
NEW GLASGOW, v. Amherst co. Va. Here is an academy for young ladies.
NEW HAMPSHIRE, one of the U. S. Seep. 48.
NEW HAMPTON, t. Strafford co. N. H. on the Merrimack, 30 m. above Concord . Pop.
l, 904.
NEW HAMPTON, v. Hunterdon N. J. 21
m. N. by W. from Flemington, 40 NW. fromNew Brunswick.
NEW HANOVER, co. N. C. bounded bythe Atlantic ocean SE. Cape Fear river, orBrunswick SW. Bladen W. Sampson NW.Duplin N. and Orslon E. Length 50 m. meanwidth 25. Surface mostly flat, and in partmarshy. Staples, cotton and tobacco. Chieftown, Wilmington . Pop. in 1820,10,866; in1830, 10,759.
NEW HARTFORD, t. Litchfield co. Ct.22 m. W. by N. of the city of Hartford , and12 m. NE. of Litchfield, the shire town. Pop.1,766.
NEW HARTFORD, v. Oneida co. N. Y. 4 m. W. from Utica .
NEW HAVEN, t. Addison co. Vt . on Ot-ter creek.
NEW HAVEN, co. Ct . bounded by LongIsland Sound S. Housatonnuc river, or Fairfield
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SW. Litchfield NW. Hartford N. and Middle-sex NE. Length 27 m. mean breadth 22.This county is one of the most pleasingly di-versified of any in the United States . A chainof mountains of moderate elevation, pervades itfrom SSW. to NNE. and the surface is ingeneral undulating, except near the Sound .Chief town, New Haven . Pop. in 1820,39,616; in 1830, 43,848.
NEW HAVEN , city, seaport, and cap. ofNew Haven co. Ct. and semi-capital of thestate, stands at the head of a bay which opens4 m. into the land, from Long Island Sound .It is surrounded by a beautiful and extensiveplain, bounded on all sides, except towards thewater, by lofty Kills, which rise in some placesto the height of 300 or 400 feet. It is laid outwith great regularity and neatness; the streetsare 64 feet in width, and their intersectionsrectangular. A square in the centre is laidout as a public ground. It is adorned withrows of handsome shade trees and spaciouswalks. On this square stand the public build-ings, the college edifices, and 4 churches. Forbeauty, there are few squares in the Union tocompare with tills. Two of the churches arefor Congregationalists, and are very elegantstructures. Another is for Episcopalians, andis a most superb Gothic edifice of stone. Thestate-house, which stands in front of thissquare, is one of the handsomest buildings ofthe kind in the United States . This city con-tains also a Methodist meeting-house, a jail, analms-house, a museum, an observatory, 2 banks,a large gun factory, and manufactories of pa-per and cotton. Yale College , at this place,was founded in 1700, and ranks as the secondliterary institution in the Union. The collegelibrary contains 8,500 volumes, and the stu-dents’, 9,000. The philosophical and chemi-cal apparatus is excellent and complete. Thefaculty consists of a president, 10 professors,and 5 tutors. The whole number of stu-dents in 1829, divided among the departmentsof law, medicine, theology, and the academiccourse, was 496. Of this number, the collegestudents made 269. The requisites for admis-sion into the freshman class, are, a good know-ledge of Cicero’s Select Orations, Virgil, Sal-lust , Gra?ca Minora, the Greek Testament, andcommon Arithmetic. The candidate must alsobe 14 years of age. The following is thecourse of study: 1st year, Livy, five first books,Homer, 5 or 6 books, Geography, Webber’sArithmetic, Day’s Algebra , Adams* RomanAntiquities; 2d year, Horace, Greeca Majora,Murray’s English Grammar, Elements of His-tory and Chronology, Euclid, Plain Trigonom-etry, Mensuration, Surveying, Navigation, Co-nic Sections, Spherical Geometry and Trigo-nometry, and Rhetoric ; 3d year, Cicero de Or-atore, and de Ofiiciis, Tacitus’ History, 5 books,de Vita Agricola, and de Moribus Germanorum,Grceca Majora, 1st vol. finished, Vince’s Flux-ions, Enfield’s Natural Philosophy and Astron-omy, Ferguson’s History of Civil Society, andChemistry; 4tli year, Hebrew, Natural Philo-sophy, and Chemistry continued, Locke on theHuman Understanding, Hedge’s Logic, Blair’s