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IN AFRICA. The Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, the Mauritius an~ Seychelles Islands, Aden in Arabia, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Cape Coast Castle, Accra, and Annamboe, the Islands of St. Helena, and Ascension, .. area,_ four hundred thousand square miles population eight hundred thousand. IN NoRTH AMERICA. The Canadas (Upper and Lower), Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Cape Breton, and the Islands of Prince Edward, N ewfound. land, Vancouver, and Queen Charlotte ; with an area of more than hall a million square miles, and two millions of inhabitants. We have also on the continent of North America, the territories belonging to, and under, the con. trol of the Hudson Bay Company, extending from the northern frontiers of Canada to the Arctic Ocean, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which comprises upwards of three million square miles, and a popualtion of about one hundred and twenty thousand. IN SouTH AMERICA. Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice, Honduras and the Falkland Islands. Area about two hundred thousand square miles,-.J population one hundred and fifty thousand. In AusTRALASIA. The great Island of New Holland, which contains the settlements of New South Wales, Port Philip, South Australia, W esterri Australia, Northern Australia, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, Nmfolk Island, and the Auckland Islands. AI·ea more than three millions of square miles population rather more than half a million, of whom about 330,000 are Europeans and their descendants. IN THE WEsT INDIES. The islands of Jamaica, the Cayma!}.s, ".rrinidad, Tobago, Barbadoes, St. Vincents, Grenada, Antigua, St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Christophers, Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla, Tortola, and the Virgin Islands, Providence, the Bahamas, and the Bermudas. Area about twenty thousand square miles population nearly one million. Total area, eight millions of square miles population, about one hundred and twenty millions. The numerous, intelligent, and industrious population inhabiting the British trans-marine territories are as varied in their appearance, character, language. and religion, as the diversified regions in which they dwell. British India possesses a greater variety of races than the continent of Europe. Some of the subjects of the crown in the East are bold and warlike, others timid and peaceful some of olive hue, with Roman noses and flowing hair, others have the Negro characteristics some use a polished language, others a barbarous jargon some are ¥onoth~ists, others sunk in the grossest idolatry soma generous and confiding, others treacherous and distrustful. Even in the island of Ceylon there are three races the coast Cingalese, the Kandians, and the aborigines or V edhas. In some of our Eastern possessions, Malays predominate in others, as at Singapore and Hong Kong, Chinese constitute the mass of the population. A fine race, termed the Parsees or Guebers, have settled in Bombay from Persia, and many Armenians reside in Calcutta, while Jews dwell in several of our Indian settlements. In the West Indies there are nearly a million Negroes of Mrican descent, and in Guiana and Honduras seveml aboriginal tribes still remain. There are also in our western colonies many Mulattoes, the offspring of the white and dark-coloured races. The