New Jersey, jer'zee, one of the Atlantic states of the American Union, bounded N. and N.E. by New York, E. by New York and the Atlantic, S. by the Atlantic and Dela ware Bay, and W. by Delaware and Pennsylvania. From New York it is divided, in part, by the Hudson River, New York Bay, the Kill van Kull, Staten Island Sound, and Raritan Bay; and the Delaware River and Bay wash its entire western border. It extends 167 miles northwardly from lat. 38° 56' to 41° 21' N., and its extreme E, and W. points are respectively in W. lon. 73°54' and 75° 33'. Area, 7815 square miles...
The counties number 21, as follows: Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren.
The principal cities and towns are Trenton, the capital (pop. in 1890, 57,458), Newark, the most populous town (181,830), Jersey City (163,003), Paterson (78,347), Cam den (58,313), Hoboken (43,648), Elizabeth (37,764), Bayonne (19,033), Orange (18,844), New Brunswick (18,603), Atlantic City (13,055), Passaic (13,028), Bridgeton (11,424), Plainfield (11,267), Union (10,643), Millville (10,002), Perth Amboy (9512), Phillipsburg (8644), Harrison (8338), Morristown (8156), Burlington (7264), Long Branch (7231), Rahway (7105), Gloucester (6564), Hackensack (6004), Salem (5516), besides other thriving villages and towns, such as South Amboy, Bordentown, Red Bank, Lambertville, Princeton, Woodbury, South Orange, Somerville, Wineland, Cape May, Freehold, Boonton, Washington, Flemington, Mount Holly, Keyport, Hackettstown, Belvidere, Haddonfield, Raritan, and Beverly. In the summer season many of the seaside resorts are populous places, and thriving suburbs are numerous in the vicinity of the larger cities...
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