Describe the main features of condition of landscape of the USA at the end of the eighteenth century.

The main features of the condition of landscape of the USA at the end of the
eighteenth century were as given below:
(i) Forests covered over 800 million acres and grasslands 600 million acres
(ii) Till 1980s, white American settlements were confined to a small narrow strip of coastal land in the east. Out of the group of Native Americans, several of them nomadic, some got settled. Many of them lived only by hunting, gathering and fishing others cultivated corn, beans, tabacco and pumpkin. Some were expert trappers.
(iii) America seemed to be a land of promise. Its wilderness could be turned into cultivated fields. Forest Limber could be cut for export animal hunted for skin, mountains mined for gold and minerals.