Ohio — inow third among the States in her strength of population — was admitted as one of the United States in 1803, and in the order of time, therefore, is seventeenth in the galaxy of the Union. In the broad domain between the Ohio River, the Mississippi, and the chain of northern lakes known of old as the Northwest Territory, this State comprehends most of the space between the Ohio River and Lake Erie; and usually is esti mated to be about two hundred miles square, an area of acres. The Domesday-book, or tax duplicate of the State, for the year 1883, Showed that acres of land were re. Turned in that year, to which the acres of the cities and towns should be added. The returns for the year previous were acres, and those of 1884 were but rendering it somewhat difficult to ascertain officially just how large a state Ohio is. Its northerly extreme is at the northeast cor ner, close upon the forty-second parallel of lati tude. Its most southerly point is in the bend of the Ohio River, opposite the boundary line be tween West Virginia 'and Kentucky, or about thirty-eight and a half degrees north latitude.
