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NEWFOUNDLAND is an island situated between 46° 37’ and 51° 39’ N. 
lat., and 52° 35’ ud 59^ 25' W. long., with an estimated area of 40,200 
square miles. 
Nova Scoria is a peninsula at the eastern extremity of the Dominion, 
is about 300 miles long and 100 miles in its greatest breadtb, with an 
area of 20,907 square miles, one-fifth of which consists of lakes, rivers, 
and cie of the sea. Cape "Breton Island forms a part. of this p province. 
Prince Epwarp IsLtAND lies in a bay formed by Nova Scotia and 
New Brunswick, and is about 140 miles long by 34 miles i in its greatest 
breadth, with an area of 2,156 square miles. 
COUVER IsrAND lies on the Pacific side of the continent, Bobi/vus 
48? 20 and 50° 55’ N. lat., and 123° 10’ to 128° 20’ W. long., and has 
an area of 75,634 square miles. 
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