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area’ = about lion square ee extends from krotic Circle to woll within the Tropics. east coast is deeply indented, while the. is comparatively regular. The ty Mountains run almost parallel to the coast throughout its whole length, and nge of le elevation, the Appal a chi an pm, is found in the east. Between two is an immense plain, stretching » the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of ico, savin te greatest elevation, e Height of Land,” along the fiftieth Uel of latitude, and on the west, ring into a sloping table-land which 3 to the foot hills of the Rockies. t of the plain consist a of undulating score red prairio land, but portions. well-timbered. ‘The rivers are among largest in the world. The Mackenzie s into the Arctic Ocean, the Nelson into is on Bay, tho St. Lawrence into the ntic, and the Mi i ippi and the Rio ade del Norte into the Gulf of Mexico. rivers of importance flow westward. chief are the Yukon, flowing into ey the Fraser, and the Columbia. ne iakes include many of the —_ ts of fresh water on the globe. kenzie basin contains Lake Athaa, Great Bear Lake, and Great Slave e; Lakes Manitoba and Winnipeg are ned by the Nelson; and Superior, igan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario swell rolume of the St. Lawrence, The Great Lake has no effluent. merican Indians form but a small portion of the inhabitants, who mostly ist of the descendants of European rants. French is chiefly spoken in the ince of Quebec; ies for the most ‘in the rest of Canada and the United es; Spanish in Mexico, Central — and many of the West Indian 2 MERICA, [s. 42]