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UNITED STATES. 



The following table shows the area and population of each of these divisions. 



J}rea. Government 

 350,000 Republic. 

 1,300,000 " 



State or Region. Population. 

 British Provinces, 1,500.(100 

 Russian Territory, 50,000 

 Danish Possessions, 100,000 

 Hudson's Bay Comp'y. 50,000 

 United States, 17,000,000 



Jlrea. Government. 



500,000 Colonial. 



500,000 Company. 



450,000 Colonial. 

 2,000,000 Company. 

 2,300,000 Republic. 



State or Region. Population. 

 Texas, 100,000 

 Mexico, 6,0U0,0()0 

 Central America or ) 2,000,000 

 (juatemala, ) ' ' 



186,000 



CHAPTER III. UNITED STATES. 



1. Boundaries and Extent. The United States are bounded N. by Russian and British 

 America ; E. by the British Province of New Brunswick and the Atlantic Ocean ; S. by the 

 Gulf of Mexico, and by Texas and Mexico, and W. by the Pacific Ocean. They extend from 

 25^ to 54° N. Lat., and from 67° to 125° W. Lon., or through 29 degrees of latitude, and 

 through 58 degrees of longitude, comprising an area of upwards of 2,200,000 square miles, 

 with a frontier line of 9,500 miles, .3,650 of which are sea-coast.* 



2. Face of the Country. This vast country, comprising one twentieth of the habitable 

 globe, is divided by two ranges of mountains, into three great natural sections, the Atlantic 

 slope, the Mississippi valley, and the Pacific slope. 



(1.) The Jllleghany chain is more remarkable for its length than lieiglit. Perhaps there is 

 no tract of country in the world that preserves the mountain character over so great a space 

 with so little elevation. The mean height of the Alleghanies is only from 2,''-'00 to 3,000 feet, 



• On the subject of the boundaries, see Maine, Michigan, Oregon, and VVii^eonsin. 



