A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . SlRKKNDER OF CORNWALIJS. people. Soon after he resigned his commission and reachedhome at Mount Vernon in time to spend there a joyfulChristmas. Boundaries of the Nation.—By the treaty it was decidedthat the territory of the new nation should extend from theAtlantic coast to the Mississippi Biver. Great Britain re-tained Canada and gave back Florida to Spain. The vastregion west of the Mississippi was held by Spain. TheUnited States had no Gulf coast, Florida extending by astrip of land fifty miles wide to join Louisi
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . SlRKKNDER OF CORNWALIJS. people. Soon after he resigned his commission and reachedhome at Mount Vernon in time to spend there a joyfulChristmas. Boundaries of the Nation.—By the treaty it was decidedthat the territory of the new nation should extend from theAtlantic coast to the Mississippi Biver. Great Britain re-tained Canada and gave back Florida to Spain. The vastregion west of the Mississippi was held by Spain. TheUnited States had no Gulf coast, Florida extending by astrip of land fifty miles wide to join Louisiana, so that onall the south and west lay Spanish territory. THE BIRTH OF A NATION. 233 5. THE BIRTH OF A NATION. Concentration of the People.—At the opening of theRevolution the population of the colonies is supposed tohave been more than two milhon five hundred , fortunately for the Americans, this population wasconcentrated within the narrow space between the moun-tains and the sea. Had access to the west been easy, andthe population been thinly spread
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