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GEOGRAPHICAL PRIMER. 
XLI.— COLD COUNTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA. 
(PArt I, PacGEes 52-56, 78-82.) 
We have learned that the greater part of this continent, 
north of the United States. is a cold forest land with few 
Montreal. 
inhabitants but Indians, and that the Arctic shores, where 
‘he Eskimos live, are colder and almost barren. In the sea 
to the northeast, are Greenland and Iceland, which belong 
to Denmark. All of the northern part of the continent, 
axcept Alaska, belongs to Great Britain. It is divided into 
several provinces, which together form the Dominion of 
Canada, Montreu. is the only great city of the Dominion, 
but Quebec is older.