Canada

is intersected by the arctic circle. Its area is 14,000 square miles, and its height sea-level 200 feet. Its surplus waters are by the Bear Lake river into the Mackenzie Bearn, an old province of France of which the was Pau, now forms the greater portion of department of Ba es-Pyrénées. It became an of the crown of France in the person of enry IV., who was a descendant of the family of the rulers of Bearn, and who, because he was and brought up there, was nicknamed the Not until 1620 was it formally incorporated France by Louis XIII., and up to 1790 it conto be governed by its own constitution. Bear River, a river of the United States, rises the north part of Utah; and, after flowing gorththrough Idaho, re-enters Utah, and flows into Great Salt Lake. Though it is 450 miles in yet the distance from its mouth to its in a straight line is only 90 miles.