POLK COUNTY, situated on the west boundary of Arkansas. Area, ----- square miles. Seat of justice, Liberty. Pop. in 1850, 1,263.

POLK COUNTY, situated in the southwesterly part of Missouri. Area, 760 square miles. Seat of justice, Bolivar. Pop. in 1840, 8,449; in 1850, 6,186.

POINSETT COUNTY, situated in the northeasterly part of Arkansas, with St. Francis river on the east. Area, ------ square miles. Seat of justice, Bolivar. Pop. in 1850, 2,308.

PIKE COUNTY, situated in the southwesterly part of Arkansas. Area, 500 square miles. Seat of justice, Murfreesborough. Pop. in 1840, 969; in 1850, 1,861.

PHILIPS COUNTY, situated on the eastern boundary of Arkansas, with the Mississippi river on the east, and traversed by the St. Francis. Area, 730 square miles. Seat of justice, Helena. Pop. in 1820, 1,201; in 1830, 1,153; in 1840, 3,547; in 1850, 6,935.

PERRY COUNTY, situated in the central part of Arkansas, with Arkansas river on the northeast. Area, ----- square miles. Seat of justice, Perryville. Pop. in 1850, 978.

NEWTON COUNTY, situated toward the northwesterly part of Arkansas. Area, ---- square miles. Seat of justice, -------. Pop. in 1850, 1,758.

MONTGOMERY, city, seat of justice of Montgomery co., and the capital of the state of Alabama, having succeeded Tuscaloosa, as the seat of government, in 1847, has a central situation in Montgomery county, 220 miles northeast of Mobile, and 839 miles from Washington. It is the centre of an extensive trade in cotton, which is brought from the surrounding country to this point, the head of steamboat navigation on Alabama river. It contains the usual number of public buildings.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, situated in the westerly part of Arkansas. Area, ----- square miles. Seat of justice, Montgomery. Pop in 1850, 1,958.

MONROE COUNTY, situated in the easterly part of Arkansas, and traversed by White river. Area, 1,150 square miles. Seat of justice, Lawrenceville. Pop. in 1840, 936; in 1850, 2,049.