THE BRITISH COLONIES, 



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Annamaboe, the Islands of St. Helena and Ascension. 

 Area four hundred thousand square miles; population 

 eight hundred thousand. 



In Australia. — The great Island of Australia, or 

 New Holland, which contains the settlements of New 

 South Wales, Port Philip, South Australia, "Western Aus- 

 tralia or Swan River, Northern Australia or Port Essing- 

 ton, Van Dieman's Island, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, 

 and the Auchland Islands. Area more than three million 

 square miles ; population half a million, of whom 325,000 

 are Europeans and their descendants. 



In Europe. — Gibraltar, Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalo- 

 nia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, and Cerigo in the Medi- 

 terranean, and Heligoland in the German Ocean. Jersey, 

 Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, have been held as fiefs of 

 the Crown since the reign of William the Conqueror. 

 The area of these territories and dependencies is about fif- 

 teen hundred square miles ; population nearly half a mil- 

 lion. 



Total area, eight million square miles ; population 

 about one hundred and twenty million. * * * * 



In British North America there are about two million 

 white inhabitants, of whom six hundred thousand are of 

 French descent, and the remainder of the Anglo-Saxon 

 race. There are also about one hundred thousand Indians 

 in the territories confided to the management of the Hud- 

 son's Bay Company. 



