Excerpt from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. 2: The West Indies British colonization began in America. In America it received outwardly its greatest check, when the United States declared and made good their independence. In America notwithstanding, at the present day, the area of British possessions is, owing to the vast extent of the Canadian Dominion, larger than in any other part of the globe. On page 2 is a table of the American dependencies of Great Britain, showing the mode and date of acquisition in each case, the area and the population at the last (igor) census. Nearly all the dependencies enumerated in this list fall into two main groups, the North American and the West Indian. Two alone belong neither to the one nor to the other, viz. The Bermudas in the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Falkland islands 03 the Straits of Magellan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.