Delaware

One of the Eastern States, and the smallest except R. I.; area, 2,050 sq. miles. Its surface is extremely level, being in few places more than 200 feet above tide. Its surface geology shows a succe ion from north to south of Cretaceous, Neocene and Quarter nary deposits. It has some manufactures, but its principal industry is market gardening. It had, in 1892, 320 miles of railroad. Pop., 1890, 168,493, being 81.2 inhabitants per sq. mile. The foreign element was small; the colored numbered 29,022. The capital is Dover, and the principal city Wilmington. It was colonized 1630 by the Dutch, and 1637 by the Swedes and Finland ers, who named the region New Sweden. On the ce ion of N. Y. to the English 1664, it was claimed by the Duke of York, and also for Md. by Lord Baltimore, but was purchased 1685 by Wm. Penn, and governed as part of Pa. It entered the Union 1776 as one of the thirteen original States. Though a slave-holding State, it did not secede 1861. (See Map on page 18.)