Colonization

[Fr. colonisation.] Act of colonizing, or state of being colonized; as, the colonization of Liberia. Colonization Society, n. A society founded in 1816, in the U. States, with a view" to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in this country, either in Africa or some other place, as Congre shall deem expedient." Its principal work has been the colonization of Liberia, to which word we refer for more ample information. Coloniza'tionist, n. One who favors colonization. Fig . 645.-COLONNADE OF THE LOUVRE. When a colonnade is continued around the whole of the exterior of a building, or the interior, if it be a quadrangle with a court in the centre, it is called a peristyle. The most celebrated modern C. is that of the Louvre, at Paris, constructed by Perrault.