It was the custom of the geographers of a period not remote to
grapple somewhat jejune facts to the infant mind by means of
fanciful comparison: thus, Italy was likened to a boot, France to a
coffee-pot, and the European domain of the Sultan to a ruffling
turkey. In this pleasant scheme the state of New York was made to
figure as a couchant lion, his massy head thrust high in the North
Country, his forepaws dabbled in the confluence of the Hudson and
the Sound, his middle and hinder parts stretched lazily westward to
Lake Erie and the Niagara. Roughly speaking, in this noble animal's
rounding haunch, which Ontario cools, lies the Demijohn
Congressional District whose majority party was now in convention
assembled. In election returns and official utterances generally
the Demijohn District bore a number like every district in the
land, but the singular shape lent it by the last gerrymander had
settled its popular title till another political overturn should
distort its outline afresh.
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