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Area. Eng. sq. miles. Brought forward 3,567,646 S- America, Guiana 76,060 Fnlklaml Islands . 6,500 Africa Ascension and St Helena 80 West Coast Settlements 17,000 Cape Colony 230,000 Natal 11,200 Mauritius, &c 708 Asia- Aden and Perim 12 India 938,360 Ceylon 25,740 Straits Settlements 1,210 Labuan ( Borneo) 45 Hong Kong (China) 32 Australasia Australia 3,000,000 Tasmania 26,215 New Zealand 106,250 Oceania Fiji 8,030 Population 5,615,000 194,000 800 6,300 578,000 1,110,000 290,000 316,000 26,000 191,300,000 2,406,000 308,000 4,900 120,000 1,725,000 105,000 345,000 85,000 8,015,028 204,535,000 . . FllANCE. America- St Pierre and Miquelon (Newfound land) Martinique, Guadeloupe, &c. (West Indies) Guiana (South America) Africa Algeria Coast of Senegambia Coast of Guinea Mayotte Island and Madagascar Settlements Reunion (Indian Ocean) Asia Pondicherry, &c. (India) ... Cochin China Oceania New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands Marquesas Africa- SpAIN - Cuba and Porto Rico (West Indies) Africa Ceuta, Tetuan, &c. (Marocco) Canary Islands ... Coast of Guinea Asia Philippines (Eastern Archipelago) Oceania Caroline, Pelew, and Marion Islands PORTUGAL. Europe Azores Africa Madeira Cape Verd Islands Coasts of Senegambia and Guinea Angola Mozambique, &c. (East Coast) Asia Goa, &c. (India) Tirnoi, &c. (Eastern Archipelago).. Macao (China) HOLLAND. America Curagoa, &c. (West Indies) ......... Guiana (S. America) ................. 5,000 315,000 25,000 2,150,000 200,000 180,000 28,500 194,000 266,000 1,486,000 60,000 10,000 247,642 4,919,500 81 1,093 47,000 150,500 10,000 7,750 270 970 200 21,700 7,600 478 49,500 2,250,000 3 3,250 850 65,800 1,300 33,000 237,000 30,000 6,000,000 34,000 120,703 8,584,000 1,000 250,000 320 115,000 1,500 70,000 500 33,000 300,000 2,000,000 380,000 300,000 1,610 528,000 5,520 250,000 1 72,000 690,451 3,618,000 436 66,000 40,000 70,000 Java and other islands (Eastern Archipelago) ........................ 615,000 24,000,000 661,436 24,110,000 DENMARK. Greenland Coast Settlements A merica St Thomas. &c. (West hulks) SWEDEN. America St Bartholomew (West Indies) .. 34,000 140 34,140 9,800 37,700 47,500 2,900

COLOPHON, an ancient city of Asia Minor, situated a short distance from the coast, and about eight miles north of Ephesus. It was founded by the lonians, but did not take part in the great political festival of the Apaturia, The principal facts in its history are its capture by the Persians and its depopulation by Lysimachus. At a later date the name was not unfre juently applied to the con tiguous city of Notium, which continued to flourish till the time of Cicero at least. The site of Colophon is easily determined, but there are hardly any traces of its buildings. It claimed to bfe the birthplace of Homer, and, besides various lesser names, it numbered among its celebrities Mimnermus the elegiac poet, and Nicander the author of the Tkeriaca. Its name was given to a resin obtained from the pines on the neighbouring Mount Gallesus, and is still recognizable in " colophony," and in the French colophane. The ancient proverb, TOV KoAo</>wra 7re#r/Kv (he has put the Colophon to the matter), has likewise left its trace in the modern languages, and more particularly in the vocabulary of bibliography, where the word " colophon " is employed to designate the concluding lines of early printed works, containing the title, date, &c. The adage is said to have arisen either from the decisive influence of the Colophonian cavalry in a contest, or from the fact that the citizens had the casting vote in the great Ionian assembly.

COLORADO, one of the United States of North America. Boundaries: N., Wyoming and Nebraska; E., Nebraska and Kansas; S., the Indian Territory and New Mexico; and W., Utah. Latitude, between 37° and 41° N.; longitude, from 102° to 109° W. Breadth N. to S. about 280 miles, length E. to W. about 380. Area estimated at 106,500 square miles, or 68,160,000 acres. Population, 120,000.

Mountains.—This territory is traversed from north to south by the great continental chain of the Rocky Mountains, and according to its orographical configuration may be divided into a mountain district, a hill district, and a plain district. The principal range of these mountains bears the name of the Sawatch Range. It consists of a solid mass of granite, has an average elevation of 13,500 feet, presents a broad and massive outline, and has a mean breadth of from fifteen to twenty miles. It is really a prolongation of the Sierra Madre of Mexico, and up to about 40° N. lat. it forms the dividing line between the Atlantic and the Pacific versants. Beginning at the south we have the following peaks:—Mount Bowles, 14,106 feet; twelve miles northward, Mount Howard, 14,208; eleven miles to the north-east, La Plata Mount, 14,126; seven miles from La Plata, Grizzly Peak, 13,786, and Mount Elbert, 14,150; and six miles from Mount Elbert, Massive Mountain, 14,192. For about eighteen miles north of this last elevation the range is comparatively low, but it rises again in the great terminal peak of the Holy Cross, which attains a height of 13,478 feet, and owes its name to the figure emblazoned on its summit by the white lines of its snow-filled ravines. Second only in importance to the Sawatch range are the Elk Mountains, which strike off from it in a south-west direction, and extend for a distance of upwards of thirty miles. They