INDIANA, now one of the United States of America, is situate between 37° 45' and 41" 52' north lat. and between 7° 40' and 10° 47' west long. from Washington City. Its mean length is about 270 miles, and its mean breadth about 130. It is bounded on the north by Nlicligan Territory, Lake Michigan, and the North West Territory ; south by the Ohio River, which separates it from the state of Ken tucky; cast by the state of Ohio ; and west by the state of Illinois. Indiana is divided into 20 counties, as follows, V17.
It contains an area of 34,000 square miles, or 21,760,000 acres. The soil is very fertile, and is %s ell adapted to the production of wheat, rye, indigo, tobacco, &c. A sil ver mine has been discovered above Ouiatanaw, on the northern side of the Wabash. Salt springs, lime, blue and yellow freestone, and %%hite clay, abound upon the River Wabash. Sea Coal is found on Big River ; and on all the streams which run into the Ohio The principal rivers are, the Wabash, which runs into the Ohio by a mouth 810 feet wide, and about 887 miles below Pittsburg. White River falls into the Wabash about
20 miles belos% Vincennes. The other rivers are the Tip pecanoe, Illinois, and St Joseph's.
The population in 1800 was 4875, in 1810, 24,520 ; and in 1815, 68,780 ; but at the present period (1818) it is sup posed to be above 100,000.
Indiana formed part of the North-Western Territory tilt' January 1801, when it was, by an act of Congress, erected into a territorial government, with the usual power and privileges. It remained under this form of government till 1816, when, the pppulation being sufficient, Congress authorised the people to establish a state government. A existitution was formed and adopted on the 29th of June I516; and they were admitted into the union as the nine •rcnth state, on the Ilth of December of the same year. Sec Nlorsc's Geography; Melish's Geographical De Acription of the United States.