New Jersey

New Jersey is one of the 13 original States of the American Union, the United States. It faces the Atlantic between New York State on the North and Delaware Bay on the South, with Pennsylvania on its western border. The well-watered and fertile central plains favour a prosperous fruit and agricultural industry, tracts of pine and cedar wood cover the sandy South, while the North, traversed by ranges of the Appalachians, abounds in valuable forests of oak, hickory, chestnut, sassafras, &c. Minerals are plentiful, especially iron ores. New Jersey is thickly populated, well provided with railway and water transit, and busily engaged in manufactures - e. g. glass, machinery, silk, sugar. Trenton is its capital while the former capital city Newark (capital) is the largest city. Jersey City is also among the largest cities of the New Jersey. It was sold to Penn in 1682, and settled chiefly by immigrant Quakers.

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