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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: State of New York |
 | | The great central plain of the State, lying between the mountainous districts of the south and west and the Great Lakes and the Adirondacks and the eastern mountain ranges on the north and east, is renowned for the fertility of its soil and the extent of its manufactures. |
| | The population of the State of New York itself increased from 340,120 in 1790 to 1,918,608 in 1830. |
| | It enacted that the law of the State should be constituted of the Common Law of England and of the Acts of the Legislature of the Colony of New York, as together forming the law of the colony on 19 April, 1775 (the day of the battle of Concord and Lexington). |
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