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* CANAANITES. 105 CANADA. seasons being in the spring, early summer, and the land surface of which is distributed amono autunm. They were occasions of merry-making, the component political divisions (largely by and the scenes, particularly of the harvest fes- computation) as follows: tival, were of a hilarious character, culminating Square Miles no d.iubt at times in riot, and perhaps were some- l^j'T^^^f"^ ^^'^"'^ -'""* what licentious. Many of the religious customs New Biuusnick '.'.'.'.'.'..','.."..'. i'8 loo of the Canaanites were taken up bv the Hebrews Quebei- "' 3441459 ypon their taking possession of" the country. Smutlfba;"'.;.'.'. 'lYT The invasion marked the change from a semi- Assiuiboia .."!!..!!!.".."!!.......'."^'.'.'.'^'.'.'^'.'.'.','.'.'.'.".";. sg'aio nomailic to an asricultural life for the latter, British Columbia "^^".'^.'".'"..'.'"Z 3.S2!30(> and they naturally looked to the baaiim for pro- T^^^^^zzz^z:":::" :::::::::::'. "Ks tection and blessings of the soil. This anialga- .thaliasca "!!.!!!.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 23!t|.wo niation of Canaanitish worship with the .Teliovis- Keewatiii 4<.iooo tic rites evoked the opposition of the ardent -Je- Mackenzie ....ZZZZ.ZZ... Im ■'no hovah worshipers, represented by Elijah and Ungava !!.!!!!.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 'iie^ooo Elisha. in the Ninth Century B.C., and by the _, . . ^— Hebrew prophets (Amos, Hosea, Jlicah, etc.) in 3,oi8.iil the Eighth Century, which led finally to the abo- ^o ollicial statement of area is as vet "iven lition of the old Canaanitish sanctuaries and the for the unorganized territory of FrankHii, which, recognition of the temple at .Jerusalem as the comprises the Arctic archipelago. The most only legitimate seat of Jehovah worship. The northerly point of the domain is probably Cape language of the Canaanites. identical practically Columbia, in Grant Land. The most westerly with the Phcenician (q.v.), was adopted by the boundary is formed by the 141st meridian of Hebrews upon their taking possession of the west longitude. country. Canaanitish and Hebrew, therefore, as Topogr.pht. The physiography of Canada ordinarily understood, are synonymous terms, falls broadly into tliree great divisions, distin- Aniong recent anthropologists, Sayce (1888) and guished by fundamental dift'erenees in geological Brinton (1890) consider" the Canaanites a pre- structure, surface, and climate, namely: I. The Semitic white race (Canaanites, Phoenicians, hilly, diversified eastern half. II. The elevated Amorites, etc.) of Xorth African (Libyan) interior plains, comparatively level, and largely stock, and Sergi (1901) is of similar opinion, treeless, sloping gently northeast and north. III. Others, looking upon 'Amorites' and 'Canaanites' The mountain region, between the plains and the as somewhat synonymous (as Brinton, in 189.5, Pacific Coast, or the Alaskan region, which con- was inclined to do), ally them with the Semites, sists of the northeni extension of the Rocky Keane (1896) uses Canaanites to designate a ilountains of the United States, their included group of kindred Semitic peoples, which in- plateaus, and of various coast ranges. Each of eludes "Hebrews, Phoenicians. Carthaginians, and these prime features of the continental topog- others." The real Canaanites were probably a graphy is divisible into cert.ain large, natural people of mixed Semitic and Aiyan (possibly, subdivisions, which conform in the main to the al>ri, Haiiiitic I blood. ' " drainage basins, determined bv the events of geo- CANA-BOTA, kii'na-bo'ta. A verv large Icg'eal history., , ^ " , shark ilJcxanchus qriseus) . inhabiting deep wa- ^.l^'" eastern part of Canada has a broken ters off the ooast of Europe, and in' the Med- °f f'"-^' ^^"'^ee of generally low elevation. The iterranean. and wandering to the West Indies, r?. ) P^'V'* '^' V ' ^''^'^"^ °^ Lal)rador approach See fiUA&K, and Plate of Lampret.s axd Dog- ^"1" '^*' ""^ ^"^ interior of northern Quebec j-jg]i and of Labrador, or of the region west of Hudson rawacT 1 - /• » /t 4. /-.i ir _< t- Bay. does not exceed 1.500 to 3000 feet, and slopes CANACE, kan^a-se (Lat Gk. Kavi^v, Kan- .t^^^jjiv to the level of the shores of Hudson Bay. aU) The offspring of .Eolus and Enarete, in xhis whole vast region, embracing the land from Greek niythologj-, who conceived an incestuous 4,,^ lo^.g^ Saint Lawrence to Hudson Bav, and passion for her brother, Macareus. and was pun- continuing in a broad margin ar.umd it, is a islied for It by death. Gower mentions her in succession of low. often bare or thinlv forested the ron/-eS|Sio Amant,.^, and Chaucer m the .!/«» rid<;es of hard rocks, between which are innumcr- of Laics Tale She is not. however, to be con- ai.ie lakes, swamps ('muskegs'), and torrential fused with the Canace in the latter author's rivers. Its recent release from universal glacia- ^f/»irrs Tale, who is the daughter of King tion. and the unfavorable climate, liave not per- tambiiscan, and who. owing to the possession of niitted much valuable soil to accimiulate, except a magic ring, can understand the love plaint of a i„ small, isolated areas, and the region is not lenialc hawk. adapted to any considerable human habitation. CAN' ADA (probably from Iroquois Imiarla, Many large rivers flow into Hudson Bay from the caliin I . Dominion or. . country occupying the east; some shorter, but copious ones, from the whole of the Continent of Xorth America north south, of which the Moos and Abitibbi form canoe of the United States, except Alaska. (See special routes to .James Bay: wliile the Albany River map. accompanying this article.) The con- forms a canoe route from the Lake of the Woods tinental portion is about 2700 miles in greatest region to the same inlet. In the west the drain- length, from the .Atlantic to the Pacific, and age into Hudson Bav includes the whole basin of measures about 1000 miles from north to south, the Red, Saskatchewan. Churchill, and other riv- which gives to it, with the outlying 'lands' and ers. thus embracing the southerii half of the inte- islands, an area exceeding the United States with rior plains area ; but this will be spoken of later. Alaska, and nearly equal to that of all Europe; Thc^ Hudson Bay basin is defined south and somewhat more than one-sixth of this is under southea.st by a scarcely perceptible watershed, water. Excluding unsiin-eyi'd Arctic islands, its called 'the height of land.' or. along the north- gross area approximates 3,500,000 square miles, em boundary of the Province of (Juebee, where