NEW JERSEY, popularly known as the "Garden State," is one of the
Atlantic coast States of the American Union, lying be tween 41°
21' 22.6" and 38° 55' 4o" N. lat., and 35' and 73° 53' 39" W.
longitude. It is bounded, north by the State of New York, east,
by the Hudson river, which separates the State from New York,
and by the Atlantic ocean; and south and west by the Delaware
bay and river, which separate New Jersey from Delaware and
Pennsylvania. All the boundaries except the north ern are
natural. New Jersey has an extreme length, north and south, of
166 m., an extreme width, east and west, of 57 m. and a total
area of 8,224 sq.m., of which 710 sq.m. are water-surface.
South-east of the Kittatinny valley, and parallel with it, lies
the second topographic belt, the Highlands. This region embraces
an area of 90o sq.m., having a length, north-east to south-west,
of 6o m. and a width varying from 9 to 18 miles. It consists of
an upland plateau now dissected by streams into a series of
ridges. The average elevat