| Great Britain | 8,000,000 square miles | 224,000,000 souls. |
| China | 3,000,000 | 420,000,000 souls. |
| Russia | 7,000,000 | 74,000,000 souls. |
| Unites States | 3,000,000 | 40,000,000 souls. |
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held a territory covering three millions of square miles, and a population counting more than four hundred million souls.
But what a change has taken place!
China has been standing still, while England, Russia, and America have been conquering, planting, and annexing lands.
Look at the group of powers which occupy areas of surface counting above a million square miles each:--
The British Empire has a larger territory than Russia, a population second only to that of China.
America is treading in the footsteps of her parent, taking up her own, as a loadstone takes up its own. The greater draws, annexes, and absorbs the less.
Some months ago, Lord Dufferin, Governor-General of Canada, annexed the whole region, known and unknown, stretching from the recognised frontier of British America towards the North Pole; and, some months hence, either President Grant or his successor at the White House, will annex the great provinces of Lower California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, with
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