New Hampshire Statesman

Map of Virginia.--We at last possess the satisfaction of stating, that the General Map has been delivered to the Executive Department of State. Our readers are aware that it was left in an unfinished condition by Mr. John Wood: and that the task of collecting the deficient materials and weaving everything together into one great whole, has been devolved upon Mr. Herman Boye. Most fortunate has this selection proved; for, we will undertake to say, that no State in the Union will produce a map so complete and so useful as that of Virginia.--Some of the surveys of the counties, which were originally collected, may be, and probably are to a certain degree, defective; but that is a defect from which no State Map is exempt. In the accuracy of most of these detached surveys; in the fidelity in which they have been incorporated together: in the elegance with which the tout ensemble has been executed; the extent which it embraces of the contiguous parts of the border States; length of the roads; soundings of the bays; and in the various statistical tables which are inscribed on the margin of the map, it combines a variety of powerful recommendations.

The scale of the map was sometime ago directed by the executive. It is very large being 5 miles to one inch. The scale of Bishop Madison's was 7 miles to an inch.

The present map takes in at the N. West, some of the counties in the State of Ohio upon the same scale--on the north (as far as the embellishments, &c. would permit) a few of the counties in Pennsylvania. To the N East it takes in the Delaware Bay, with its principal soundings--also the soundings in the Chesapeake; the depth of our principal rivers, and the distances along the principal roads.

Mr. Boye estimates the whole horizontal area of the state at 65,624 miles.

On the margin of the map he has furnished several interesting tables.--Among these, a statistical table of our population in 1810 and 1820, with the horizontal extent, area, &c of each county.

He has inscribed a table of the comparative population of Virginia at the period of the four national censuses.

He has given a table of the latitudes of different places laid down in the map, and their longitude or meridional differences with respect to the Capitol in the City of Washington.--Enquirer.