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Title: The New York Tribune's history of the United States, from the discovery of America until the present time, with a pocket atlas of the world, containing colored maps of each state and territory in the United States, with statistics showing products and resources of the various states; also, maps of every country in the world
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hassard, John R. G. (John Rose Greene), 1836-1888
Subjects: Atlases
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e adjoining continent. All ordi-nary cereals may be cultivated. Grain product, 1881: 4,301,110bu.; potatoes, 6,042,191 bu.; turnips, 1,198,407 bu.; butter, 1,688,690pounds ; cheese, 196,273 pounds. Farm animals, 328,734. Population, 108,891: male, 54,729 ; female, 54,162. Capital, Char-lottetown; population, 11,485. The government is vested in a Lieutenant Governor, an Execu-tive and a Legislative Council and a House of Assembly. The fisheries are very valuable. Products, 1881: cod, 18,736 quin-tals ; herring, 21,501 bbls; mackerel, 91,792 bbls; canned lobsters,3,275,316 lbs; oysters, 175,408 bbls; fish oil, 8,139 gals. The Province owns 11 steam vessels, and 224 sailing vessels,with a tonnage of 45,237. Timber product, 1881, 910,200 cu. ft. Number of churches, 231. Free school system introduced 1853.School population, 22,711. Number of district schools, 355; gram-mar, 15; high, 46; colleges, 8. Number of miles of railway, 300. ATLAS OF THE WORLD. 71 MAP OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA.
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72 ATLAS OF THE WORLD. MANITOBA. Man.,.to..a. A Province of the Dominion of Canada, formerly known as theRed River Settlement, and also Assiniboia; admitted into the Con-federation in 18TO. Area, 123,200 square miles. Population, 65.954.The climate is healthful and cold; average summer temperature,65°; winter, 3° below zero. Government is in the hands of a Lieutenant Governor, appointedhy the Governor General of the Dominion, with an Kxecutive Coun-cil of 6 members and a Legislative Assembly. Manitoba sends 3Senators to the Dominion Senate. Capital, Winnipeg; pop., 7,985. Surface level. Laud occupied, 2,384.337 acres; improved, S50.416acres; under crops, 230,2H4 acres. Principal crop, wheat; latestreported product, 1,033,673 bu.; oats, 1,270,268 bu.; barley, 253,604bu. Farm animals, 1881: horses, 16,739; oxen, 12,269; milch cowsand other cattle, 48,012. Butter made on farms, 957,152 lbs ; cheese,19,613 lbs. Timber produced, 895,445 cu. ft. The Canadian Pacific Railway has 670 miles

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