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W. from Philadelphia , 66 from W. Lon. 76° |40' W.; lat 39° 58' N. Pop. 4,216. It is apleasant and flourishing town, regularly laidout, and contains a court-house, a jail, a market-house, an alms-house, a register’s office, anEpiscopal academy, and 10 houses of publicworship, for Episcopalians, English Presbyte-rians, German Presbyterians, German Luther-ans, Roman Catholics , Methodists, Friends, andMoravians . A large number of the houseshere are handsome and spacious structures ofbrick.

YORK , co. E. side ofVa. bounded N. byYork river, E. by Chesapeake Bay , S. by Eliza-beth City, Warwick, and James City cos. andW. by James City co. Pop. 5,354. Chief town,Yorktown.

YORK, a short and navigable river, Va. formed by the union of the Pamunky and Mat-tapony. It flows into the Chesapeake , oppositeCape Charles.

YORK, t Athens co. Ohio . Pop. 871.

YORK, t Belmont co. Ohio . Pop. 1,429.

YORK,district,N partofS.C. Pop.17,785.

YORK , t. and cap. York district, S. C. 30 m.N. from Columbia, 438 from W.

YORK BAY, a bay on the SW. coast of theisland of St. Vincent, 2 m. NW. from KingstonBay.

YORK FORT, fort at the mouth of Nelson’sriver, in Hudson’s Bay. Lon. 92° 46' W.; lat.57° 2'N.

YORK HAVEN, v. York co. Pa .

YORK SULPHUR SPRINGS, v. Adamsco. Pa .

YORKTOWN, or York, t. port of entry,and cap. York co. Va. on S. side of York river,12 m. ESE. from Williamsburg , 29 NW. fromNorfolk, 70 ESE. from Richmond . Lon. 76°52' W.; lat 37° 22' N. Pop. about 1,000. Yorkriver affords at this town the best harbor in Vir-ginia . It is contracted here to the width of amile, and is inclosed within very high banks,under which the largest vessels may ride withsafety. It is a place of some trade. Thistown is memorable for the capture of LordCornwallis and his army by the Americans, under Gen. Washington, on the 19th of October,i78i.

YOUNG POINT, cape on the E. coastof St. Vincent Lon. 61° 9' W.; lat 13°12' N.

YOUIIIOGENY, river of Pennsylvania andMaryland , rises in the extreme south-westernangle of .Maryland, between the sources of Po-tomac and Cheat rivers. Pursuing a northerncourse over the western border of Maryland , itenters Pennsylvania on the E. side of the Lau-rel Hills, and piercing both them and the Ches-nut Ridge, flows thence in a NW. direction,and empties into the Monongahela 15 m. above,or S. of Pittsburg .

YOUNGSTOWN, v. on Niagara river, Ni-agara co. N. Y. 5 m. N. from Lewiston, and 20NW. by W. from Lockport

YOUNGSTOWN , v. Westmoreland co.Pa.

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at the western foot of Chesnut Ridge, 11 m. Efrom Grcensburg, and 158 W. from Harris-burg.

YOUNGSTOWN, t in Trumbull co.Ohio ,on a branch of Big Beaver river, 8 m. NE. ofCanfield, and about 90 N. by W. of Pittsburg .Pop. 1,384.

YOUNGSVILLE, v. Warren co. Pa. 328m. NW. from Harrisburg .

YUCATAN, peninsula and state of Mexico bounded by the Gulf of Mexico NW. and N. bythe Caribbean sea E. by central America S.and by Chiapa and Tabasco SW. Lengtlifrom SW. to NE. 500 m. mean width 160;and area 80,000 sq. ms. u The ]>eninsula ofYucatan,”says Humboldt , “ofwhich the north-ern coast, from Cape Catoche, to the Punta dePiedras, 240 m. is a vast plain, intersected inits interior by a chain of hills of little eleva-tion.” Though one of the warmest, Yucatan isamong the most healthy regions of equinoctialAmerica . It reaches from lat. 15° 40' to 21°30' N. This salubrity is, no doubt, owing tothe dryness of the soil and atmosphere. Alongthe whole coast, from Cape Catoche to themouth of the river San Francisco, in a dis-tance of 400 m. the country does not afford asingle spring of fresh water; that element is,however, abundant in the interior. Chieftowns, Merida dc Yucatan , Campeche, andValladolid de Yucatan. Pop. aliout 750,000.

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ZACATECAS, intendency, Mexico , bound-ed X. by Durango, E. by San Luis Potosi, S.by Guanaxato, and W. by Guadalaxara. Itcontains an area of 18,000 sq. ms. and about160,000 inhabitants.

ZACATECAS, t. Mexico , cap. of the above,one of the most celebrated mining places ofNew Spain, 300 m. NNW. from Mexico . Pop.35,000. Lat 23 3 N.

ZACATULA, or Sacatula, t. Mexico , on ariver of the same name, near the PacificOcean , 95 m. S. from Mechoacan. Lon. 103°W.; lat. 18° 35' N.

ZACHEO, or Desechio, isl. in the W. In-dies, between Hispaniola and Porto Rico , 27ill. NE. from Mona.

ZANE, t. Logan co. Ohio . Pop. 608.

ZANESFIELD, v. Logan co. Ohio .

ZANESVILLE, v. and seat of justice forMuskingum co. Ohio, 80 m. W. from Wheel-ing, Va . 336 from W. Lat. 40° N.; Ion. 5°2' W. Pop. 3,094. It contains a court-house,and public offices; 20 or 30 stores, severalglass-houses, and 2 printing-offices. Zanes-ville stands on the E. bank of Muskingumriver, immediately adjoining the Falls, onwhich are erected a large number of mills,among which are several flouring and saw-mills, an oil-mill, a rolling-mill, a nail machine,and woollen factory. Across the river, ad-joining the town, arc built two bridges withinhalf a mile of each other, the lower connect-ing this town with Putnam.