b r i t i s h p o s s e s s i o n s
AV, NORTH AMERICA, ;,
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rT''HpSfE parts of North America, which, ftitl (belong} to Threat, .Britain
are.ie^tenfiye, and of-cqnfiderable importance s though, fo thinly
Pe:Ppl?.(f » W. fuch a di{adyant^igpqus;j:Umate',, thatitbeyj/inh.-inj^o, in-
figniEq^nce, whprr-comp.ared w,ith the great and EoUrHhingrGGlony be7
longj^g-ta Spain,[or with the Territories, of the United States. ».^The inhabitants
of the former have been1 eftimated atfevemi^ipipn^ and thofe
of’thejStates at jfiye; while thofe of the Britifh p^fleffipns fcarcely
ceed two hundred thoyfand [fouls, and the far greater-fpart, aye-French
and indigenes.
The chief .of thefe poffef£on§ ds Canada, now divided into two provinces,
called‘Upper And Lower Canada,- th.etlformer bping,the weftern
divifiipiij^on the north of-the great lakes eg?,lea of Canada ; while the
^ e^Eivifion is on the river St. Lawfe'nce tovqat-dir,fhe eaft, and contains
Quebec the capital, and the chief .city of pur remaining fettlements.
On the eaft of Canada, to thWouth of the river St. Lawrence is Nova
Scotia,; vfhich in 1784 was divided into two provinces, that of Nova
Scotia in the fputh^tand New Brunfwick in the north.’
Divifiuns.
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