The statistics of this edition are from the State census for 1885 (the last volume of which was issued in June of the present year) or from later sources, as, in part, from the clerks of the towns and cities.
The bowlders which cover the surface of the State were deposited in the glacial period, marks of which may be distinctly traced in the scratching of the ledges from the shore of the ocean to the summit of the mountains.
In the early settlement of the State, the people were greatly annoyed by the depredations of the fl and brown bear and the wolf, which ranged the deep forests, and often came by night to prey upon the cattle in the clearings.
When the first United States census was taken, in 1790, New York State had to be content with fifth place among the confederated States, for she had less than half as many inhabitants as Virginia, and less than Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Massachusetts.
The Supreme Court of the State is even more like the provincial Supreme Court, and the county courts are substantially the same as the Courts of Common Pleas which functioned in each county from 1691 to the end of the Crown period in 1775, and from the beginning of the State period to 1847.
New York State was rapidly growing; its population was rapidly changing in character; the conservative provincial families were being outnumbered by the thousands of immigrant families that debarked at New York and settled in different parts of the State, the change being most evident after the opening of the Erie Canal.
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