Kentucky text
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Title
Kentucky text
Description
Henshaw chooses a complex pattern of intersecting lines of text for Kentucky, and decorates her penmanship exercise with floral clusters.
Creator
Frances Alsop Henshaw
Source
Library of David Rumsey, Pub List No. 2501.000
Publisher
Date
April 29, 1823
Rights
Commentary & metadata CC-BY Bethany Nowviskie | Image CC-BY-NC-SA Cartography Associates
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Text
bounded North by OHIO East by VIRGINIA south by TENNESSEE West by MISSOURI
Kentucky
There are caves in Kentucky of several miles in length under a fine limestone rock suported by curious arches & Pillars
This country generally lies on a bed of limestone commonly eight feet below the surface except in vallies where the soil is thinner The Ohio washes the north western part of Kentucky in its whole course 1500 miles
Lexington on the head waters of Elkhorn river is the seat of gevernment In 1809 the number of Inhabitants 406,511.
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Citation
Frances Alsop Henshaw, “Kentucky text,” Inventing the Map (with Neatline), accessed May 16, 2022, http://henshaw.neatline.org/items/show/39.
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