. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 537 -^— &;^ u ^ , /<L^ r^w. V JK C I 7 I ^£c BRITISH IMPIR^ ? ^-^ ?^ ^ ?^^^ [McnzatorsPrgjactLary] posts in the wilderness, like those of Francein Canada, or trading establishments in greatalien communities, like those of Britain inIndia, might well cling for bare existence tothe nation which gave them support and areason for their existence. That much andno more seemed to many thinkers in theearly part of the nineteenth century to bethe limit set to overseas rule. In 1820 thesketchy great Europ
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 537 -^— &;^ u ^ , /<L^ r^w. V JK C I 7 I ^£c BRITISH IMPIR^ ? ^-^ ?^ ^ ?^^^ [McnzatorsPrgjactLary] posts in the wilderness, like those of Francein Canada, or trading establishments in greatalien communities, like those of Britain inIndia, might well cling for bare existence tothe nation which gave them support and areason for their existence. That much andno more seemed to many thinkers in theearly part of the nineteenth century to bethe limit set to overseas rule. In 1820 thesketchy great European empires outsideof Europe that had figured so bravely in themaps of the middle eighteenth century, hadshrunken to very small dimensions. Onlythe Russian sprawled as large as ever acrossAsia. It sprawled much larger in the imagi-nations of many Europeans than in reality,because of their habit of studying thegeographj^ of the world upon Mercatorsprojection, which enormously exaggeratedthe size of Siberia. The British Empire in 1815 consisted ofthe thinly populated coastal river and lakeregions of Canada, and a
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