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4803. LOUISIANA, Area of United States doubled.—

The territory acquired, as
it includes all the waters of the Missouri and
Mississippi, has more than doubled the area
of the United States, and the new part is
not inferior to the old in soil, climate, productions
and important communications.—
To General Horatio Gates. Washington ed. iv, 494. Ford ed., viii, 249.
(W. 1803)