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south by Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and west by Arkansas and Missouri. It lies between lat. 35° and 36° 35′ N., and long. 81° 37′ and 90° 15′ W. Area, 42,050 square miles, in ninety-six counties. Population in 1890, 1,767,518; 1900, 2,020,616. Capital, Nashville. Louis Joliet and Pere Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi River to lat. 33°......1673 Robert Cavalier de La Salle builds Fort Prud'homme on the fourth Chickasaw bluff of the Mississippi River......1682 M. Charleville, a French trader, builds a trading-house near the present site of Nashville......1714 French erect Fort Assumption on the Mississippi at the fourth Chickasaw bluff......1714 Bienville makes a treaty of peace with the Chickasaw Indians at Fort Assumption......June, 1739 Party of Virginians, Dr. Thomas Walker and others; discover the Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Gap, and Cumberland River......1748 Fort Loudon founded about 30 miles from the present Knoxville......1856