The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-19

area OF S.eiS Other possessions IN
c4hc are the Cook. Archipslaro Na~
island Auckland. Lord Howe r-soaaaSx
Starhuck. Maiden ana Farming s.aas,
These Islands. although small ana ~ .Aaas
value, would Re Of great use 10 ths r ..-0s
as coaling and supply stations ana a Yea
berS Of refuge in time Of war. Iss-
Rounding Cape Horn from the ps.,s.
reach the Falkland islands. 30 ma.
81 the Straits OF Magellan. They ss s1ss
only considerable cluster OF Islands !. -. -
South Atlantic, and they afford ire - -
several good haroorS. which woul5 - "a
valuable In case OF war with a naval -
The only part of the South Au,e-,r,- w. "
tinent held by Britain IS British Gus, ssI-
The boundaries 90 this colony ara NJ, -
uh-teN aScertalned. dozen wears a..
British aliases. encyclopedias and vss.
books claimed an AREA OF 7seOa. Now -
estimate il mt ltp000. The ponula,I,-
Guiana by the last enumerateT, We ~
e1 OF whom ass were Europeans. a 81
Africans. lo5+t5 East Indians and s.Tl4 f~ss'
nese. The colony was acquired from, -.
Dutch IN 1898. Belize. or British Honao-@.
has an area of 1902 square miles ana
population Of 1851 in 1885. 1t has been !,
British possession over 100 wears.
Trinidad. which has l.154 square rns.
and. with the smaller island of Tohagn
in l7SS. The WiDdward islands Gr.nss~
the Grenadines -. Lucia and ST. Vin>ar,
have altogether 62S square miles. ana
population OF 40 ~, most Of whom a..
blacks. They were all taken from Franz.
st. Vincent in ls>3 and the others in IN .
The Leeward islands. north Of the W,,s
ward islands and south Of Porto Rio
have an area of ,01 square miles and ~ -
inhabitants. but 500 Of whom are whitas
Part OF these islands. nine in number. w~rs
originally coloniZed by the British. ana
part came into their possession In cassa-
quence of the superiority of England ovA,
France in sea power.
Barbados is one of the most fertile snn,,
on the planet, Nearly every acre Of ls1a
square miles Of area Is under cultivas,on
and IL supports n population OF 1Ssgg -
LES TO the square mile. About one-tvslf,A
OF the population is white. The island wa,
settled by the English in l625
The Bahamas, consisting Of twenty IN.
habited islands, seven gninhabited ana
2.SS7 rocks. have been in the possession !.
the British since l629. They have an ara
of $40 square miles. and q population ~
1900, about quarter of whom are whitA
Jamaica. the largest OF the British Wss,
India islands. has 400 square miles -
with Turks and Caicos islands. AGA ara
a population OF 6S9 49l in 1891
The Bermudas are a group of SO .sn,u
islands situated 6S0 miles east OF No~s
Carolina and 677 miles from New Yorx
Their entire area Is but twenty squsrs
miles. and they have 1873 inhabitants l.
whom 5,Si6 are white. These ISLANDS wars
settled from Virginia in 1911. They are
point Of great strategic Importance 1,
Britain.
The Dominion OF Canada, which includes
all OF British America, so called. exce,,
Newfoundland. has an area Of sgS@
square miles. III we add that OF Newfonn3
land and of the other British dom!nlons n
North and South America, the total ARA
or British American possessions Is brought
up 10 3.633.9S4 square miles, exclusive ..
the indefinite bounds of that portlon Of Ia.
hrador-from Hudson Bay strait to the
Straits OF Belle 1sle-which is attached 10
Newfoundland for administrative purposes
The area Of the United States, tnclulag
Alaska. Is 2.602.S90, and that OF Brazil 8.
2l9 geo square miles. Clearly. Great Britain
has a larger slice OF the Western hem.
sphere than any other power.
The population OF the Dominion In ISai
was 4S33. 239. OF whom S,42S, 600 speak Eng
lish and 100000 French. BY religious pre-.
ference I. 922 900 are Catholics trihe over
two-hfths. Newfoundland has AZ. 200 square
miles and $4,000 inhabitants Altogether,
the British dominions in America have
population or 6525.0Q0. Numerically they
fall behind Mexico and Brazil, but no ons
viii dispute the fact that the Canadas alons
are OF more Importance than either Of TIA
two latter countries. and Canada Is stil
practically undeveloped. Whether this
great territory remains with England be-
comes independent or joins the United
States. fifty years hence II viii contain
large population of progressive English
speaking people.