NEBRAS'KA (North American Indian. shal low water). One of the north central States of the American Union, popularly known as the "Blackwater State." It lies between the parallels of latitude 40° and 43° N.. and between longi tudes 95° 20' and 104° W.. the latter meridian and the two parallels forming rectilinear bound aries. It is bounded on the north by South Da kota, on the east by Iowa and Missouri, on the south by Kansas and Colorado, and on the west by 1\ and Colorado. Its shape is that of a whose eastern end is cut oil onally by the Missouri Inver, and whose sialth western corner is mei-lopped by the northeastern corner of t olorado. Its extreme from east to west is 420 miles. and its breadth from north to south 208 miles. Its area is 77.510 mile., of which 4'470 miles ore NV:III'''. and 711.510 square miles. or 49.177,4i040 acres, land. It ranks thirteenth in size the States.
Toroulomiv. Nebraska lies in the of the plains the eastern slope of the Rocky \luuttains, toward whose foothills it rises in a incline. The whole western half of the State lies at an elevation of more than 2500 feet alcove the sea. On the other
hand, there are but few eminences 11111(.11 above the level of the plain, except in the extreme west, where the foothills of to appear. The point here is Wildcat :\lountain, 3038 feet alcove the sea. As the rivers are deeply benched in the soft drift material. their flood-plains in the east the Missouri, the Platte, and tributaries are lined with steep or rounded bluffs sometimes of considerable Ne braska is a prairie State.
IlvtatocatA,Pity, The State is drained entirely lcy the Missaalli Nicer and its tributaries. to the aml slope of the land, most 44 these rivers flow ill nearly parallel lines east or southeastward, and they are for the most part wide and also shallow. The three principal rivers, besides the Missouri (on the are the Platte in the centre, the Niobrara in the north, these two the whole of the State, and the Republican in the south, the latter from Kansas, and to that State to burin the Kansas Inver.