Tennessee

(1,768, of which 434 are coloured), one of the central States of the American Union, lies S. of Kentucky, and stretches from the Mi i ippi (W.) to North Carolina (E.); is one-third larger than Ireland; politically it is divided into three districts with characteristic natural features; East Tenne ee, mountainous, with ridges of the Appal a chi ans, po e ing inexhaustible stores of coal, iron, and copper; Middle Tenne ee, an undulating, wheat, corn, and tobacco-growing country; and West Tenne ee, with lower-lying plains growing cotton, and traversed by the Tenne ee River, the largest affluent of the Ohio; Nashville is the capital and largest city; became a State in 1796.