The Growth and Administration of the

British Colonies

1837—1897

By

REV. WILLIAM PARR GRESWELL, M.A.

Late Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford Author of “Africa South of the Zambesi”, “ History of the Dominion of Canada”, &c.

LONDON

BLACKIE & SON, Limited, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.

GLASGOW AND DUBLIN

1898