Geography of the United States York City, and includes the Florida peninsula. Areas further inland feature rolling hills, mountains, and a diverse collection of temperate and subtropical moist and wet forests. The Appalachian Mountains form a line of low mountains separating the eastern seaboard from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Basin. The five Great Lakes are located in the north-central portion of the country, four of them forming part of the border with Canada, only Lake Michigan situated entirely within United States. The southeast United States, generally stretching from the Ohio River on south, includes a variety of warm temperate and subtropical moist and
Great Seal of the United States States, entitled, "The Seal of the United States: How it was Developed and Adopte"d. It was written by [[Gaillard Hunt]] in 1892 under the direction of then Secretary of State [[James G. Blaine]]. When the copyright on the pamphlet expired, Hunt expounded upon the information in more detail. This was published in 1909 in a book titled" The History of the Seal of the United States." This work was largely based on a two-volume work written in 1897 by [[C. A. L. Totten|Charles A. L. Totten]] titled "Our Inheritance in the Great Seal of Manasseh, the United States of America: