Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the ocean. The soil of this county is generally better than that of Suffolk. The improved lands comprise one hundred and forty- four thousand eight hundred and ninety-three acres, which fall rather under seven-eleveuths. The population, in 1825, was twenty thousand three hundred and thirty-one ; which would give about fifty-seven inhabitants to every square mile. Queens was erected into a county November 1st, 1683. Its principal villages are Flushing, Newton, tmd Jamaica. The toons amount to sixteen. Kings is bounded on the east by Queens, on the south by Jamaica bay and the Atlantic ocean, on the west by the Narrows, which separate it from Staten Island, and on the north-west by New-York Bay and East River. The latter river separates it from New-York, or Manhattan island. Its area contains about eighty-one square miles, or fifty-two thousand one hundred and sixty acres of land. After Richmond and New-York, it is the smallest county in the state. Kings, in 1825, contained fourteen thousand six hundred and seventy-nine inhabitants. The improved land, in the same year, comprised twenty-four thousand four hundred and twenty-seven acres. The population to every square mile is one hundred and eighty-one. Kings was erected into a county November 1st, 1683. Its surface is level, or very moderately undulated. The soil is mostly a sandy loam, and not productive, unless rendered so by the aid of manures and good husbandry. Kings is subdivided into six towns. The largest village is Brooklyn, opposite to the city of New-York. Its situation, in some respects, is nearly equal to that of New-York. Its population is probably nine thousand. Barren Island, lying at the mouth of Jamaica bay, is three or four miles long. Fort Fayette, constructed lately at the Narrows, is in this count...