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the war of independence the six states of Aristopia rapidly expanded their boundaries and settlements to the great lakes on the north and a hundred miles south of the Ohio River. The stations on the route to the copper mines and to New Orleans became the germs which quickly grew into new states. Having by far the most desirable and fertile part of the continent, immigration from Europe to Aristopia was much greater than to the Atlantic States, and from her favorable conditions of life the natural increase of her population was more rapid than that in any other part of America. The Aristopian population dominated the Canadian State of Ontario and introduced there their peculiar political economy.

The other states were at first fearful of a close union with Aristopia, jealous of her overshadowing power. But gradually the leaven of Aristopian political economy worked in the