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Excerpt from King's Handbook of the United States The illustrations necessary to explain and make clear the text proved to be unexampled in num ber for any Single volume. Had not the limits of space forbidden, the drawings alone actually used would easily have filled a volume larger than the one now containing them With the de scriptive text and the atlas of the country. The necessary reduction has taken away from the apparent importance of each of the pictures, but we hope that a careful examination will show that the artistic beauty and the intrinsic value have in all cases been retained. As the Handbook in its essentials is based upon the National Census of 1890, whose final results were announced only in 1893 and 1894, it has been thought best to leave the text with only minor alterations, and to embody the results of later and generally less authoritative compilations up to 1896 in the form of an appendix. The portion relating to any State can be reao easily and quickly, and thus in an instant the necessary emendations be fixed in the mind of the reader, without the need of destroying the symmetry of the work as a record. In the case of the maps, all information available up to 1896 has been em bodied ih the plates so as to make of them a complete up-to-date atlas. With these few explanations of the intent of Its author and publishers, we leave the result of their labors for the consideration of the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.