Patagonia is separated by the straits of Magellan from Terra del Fugo, and is about 700 miles by 300. The natives are in a savage state, as is the whole country to the neighborhood of Paraguay.

Paraguay is 1500 by 1000 miles, and divided into the provinces of Paraguay, Parana, Guaira, Urangua, Tucuman, and Laplata. The capital is Buenos Ayres. This country was not completely subjected to Spain. The religious society of Jesuits established there a sacerdotal government but vast portions of the natives live totally independent. The lakes in this country are extensive, particularly that of Zaraya Caracordes is 100 miles long. The La Plata is the largest river in the known world, and is 50 leagues broad at its entrance. receives the Paraguay, Salt, Red, Pilcomoyo, Grand, and Uraquay rivers, and some hundred others.

It

Brazil embraces a very large space on this continent; being 2500 miles long by 700 broad. It is separated from Maragnan and Paraguay by a vast chain of mountains; and extends along the coast narrowly to the mouth of La Plata, and from thence along the shore of the Atlantic to the Maragnan (or Amazon) river, which is the next river to La Plata in magnitude, on earth. The capital is Rio Janeiro, but the seat of gov ernment is Bahaia, or St. Salvador. Many fine rivers rise in the interior mountains. It is the richest and most prolific country in South Ame rica.

Maragnan (or Amazonia) is an inland coun try, very little known to foreign travellers..... The great river Maragnan rises in Quito and

runs 5000 miles in its course to the Atlantic, and receives the tribute of some hundreds of rivers; it is a fine country, though close under the equinoctial.

Guiana commences with the Maragnan, agreeable to a treaty of extension of 1801. It was formerly bounded by the Arwary south; and it extends north west along the coast to the river Oronoco.

2: Are these the only territories that were held by Spain in South America, which you have noticed ?

A. Yes.....but they possessed also large territories to the northward.

2. Which are they?

A. North of Darien, are. Varagua, Costa Ri ca, Gautimala, Honduras, Yucatan, and some other provinces subordinate to these, and dependent on Mexico."

2. Where does North America commence? A. This isthmus is the received boundary, commencing with old Mexico.

2. What are the Dutch settlements?

A. Surinam, or Dutch Guyana, as it is some. times called, takes its name from the river Surinam, on which Paramaribo, the capital, is situ ated. Its length is about 350 miles from southeast to north-west, along the shores of the.. Atlantic; but only 160 in breadth. New Middleburg, another town in this colony, is situated near the north-west extremity of it, and Demerara is a settlement on a river of the same name. The Dutch first settled here in 1663; but were expelled four years after by the English, whose descendents still form part of the inhabitants.... It was resumed by the Dutch in 1676, but great

part of it is yet unexplored. The principal rivers are the Esequibo, which receives the short stream of the Demerara, the Corentin, and Berbice, on which there is a settlement of the same name.. This colony produces abundance of anotta, a substance much used in dying.

OF NORTH AMERICA.

Q. How is North America divided?

A. The greater portion belongs to the American republic, or United States; but some European nations have colonies, such as the British, who possess Canada, Nova Scotia, Hudson's bay, Newfoundland, and the adjacent islands the Spaniards also possessed East Florida, Old and New Mexico, California.

2. What is the boundary of Mexico?

A. It is divided into two, old Mexico or New Spain, New Mexico including California, New Navarre, and New Biscay; the whole are about 2000 miles by: 600 broad, Mexico seated on a lake of the name, and celebrated by the conquests or ravages of the Spaniards, is the capital. The lakes and rivers are numerous.

New Mexico is to the northward of the old, bounded eastward and northward by Louisiana; and westward by California, which is a peninsula in the Pacific, divided by a Gulph about 180 miles from the point of land. The capital of New Mexico is St. Fe, on the Rio del Nord; and is about 1400 long by 500 miles broad.

CLASS VII....LESSON II.

OF THE UNITED STATES.

2. I wish to have a geographical sketch of our own beloved country....the United States?

A. The boundaries of the United States were fixed by the treaty of 1783, which terminated the war for our independence. From the north west angle of Nova Scotia, formed by a line due north from the source of St. Croix river, along the mountains to the north-westernmost head of the Connecticut river to the 45o of N. latitude, thence by a line due west to the river Catarague, and along the middle into lake Ontario, thence through the Lakes Erie, Huron, Superior, Long Lake to the Lake of the Woods, and to the north-western point thereof; thence in a due west course to the Mississippi; thence by a line down the Mississippi till it strikes on 31° of N. latitude, thence to St. Mary's on the Atlantic, the east boundary is the St. Croix river to the Atlantic, and comprehending all islands within 20 leagues of the shores of the United States. It is computed to be 1480 miles long by 1000 broad on an average, and to contain without Louisiana, 1,480,000 square miles. It is divided as follows into states and territories, counting from the southward:

1. Georgia,
2. Tennessee,
3. Kentucky,
4. South Carolina,
5. North Carolina,

STATES.

6. Pennsylvania,
7. New Jersey,
8. New York,
9. Vermont
10. Connecticut,

To these must be added several tracts settled and unsettled in various parts of the union, which are under temporary forms of adminis

tration.

2. In a former lesson you mention Florida.... to whom does it belong?

A. Florida was originally the name given to all the countries from Virginia to Mexico; but as the colonial authority of the Spaniards and French receded south, it came at length to comprehend only a range of territory south of Georgia, and extending to the river Perdido in the Gulph of Mexico.

The British took Florida from the Spaniards during our revolution, and extended the denomination of West Florida up the Mississippi, and over part of Louisiana; East Florida they called that promontory which is to be seen on the map opposite to the island of Cuba in the West Indies, and forming the west side of the Gulph of Florida....the east side formed by the Bahama islands. East Florida is at present held by Spain, but it is expected we shall obtain possession of it; as the people of West Florida in 1810, declared themselves independent, and the United States government, in order to secure their right, and to guard against a dangerous neighborhood, have occupied West Florida.