noted as the author of two great statues
of Apollo, one in bronze made for the temple at Miletus, and one in
cedar wood made for Thebes. The coins of Miletus furnish us with copies
of the former and show the god to have held a stag in, one hand and a
bow in the other. The rigidity of these works naturally impressed later
critics.

CANADA. The Dominion of Canada comprises the northern half of the
continent of North America and its adjacent islands, excepting Alaska,
which belongs to the United States, and Newfoundland, still a separate
colony of the British empire. Its boundary on the south is the parallel
of latitude 49 deg., between the Pacific Ocean and Lake-of-the-Woods,
then a chain of small lakes and rivers eastward to the mouth of Pigeon
river on the north-west side of Lake Superior, and the Great Lakes with
their connecting rivers to Cornwall, on the St Lawrence. From this
eastward to the state of Maine the boundary is an artificial line nearly
corresponding to lat. 45 deg.; then an irregular line partly determined
by watersheds and rivers divides Canada from Maine, coming out on the
Bay of Fundy. The western boundary is the Pacific on the south, an
irregular line a few miles inland from the coast along the "pan handle"
of Alaska to Mount St Elias, and the meridian of 141 deg. to the Arctic
Ocean. A somewhat similar relationship cuts off Canada from the Atlantic
on the east, the north-eastern coast of Labrador belonging to
Newfoundland.

_Physical Geography._--In spite of these restrictions of its natural
coast line on both the Atlantic and the Pacific, Canada is admirably
provided with harbours on both oceans. The Gulf of St Lawrence with its
much indented shores and the coast of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
supply endless harbours, the northern ones closed by ice in the winter,
but the southern ones open all the year round; and on the Pacific
British Columbia is deeply fringed with islands and fjords with
well-sheltered harbours everywhere, in strong contrast with the unbroken
shore of the United States to the south. The long stretches of sheltered
navigation from the Straits of Belle Isle north of Newfoundland to
Quebec, and for 600 m. on the British Columbian coast, are of great
advantage for the coasting trade. The greatly varied Arctic coast line
of Canada with its large islands, inlets and channels is too much
clogged with ice to be of much practical use, but Hudson Bay, a
mediterranean sea 850 m