The northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending northward from the Colombia-Panama border and including CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO, Caribbean area, the UNITED STATES, CANADA and GREENLAND. The term often refers more narrowly to MEXICO, continental UNITED STATES, AND CANADA.
    

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North and Central America and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans: map. Engraving, ca. 1777.

An English woman lost in the American jungle is captured by a native American with a tomahawk. Engraving by C. Warren, 1797, after J. Burney.

Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.

A missionary preaching to native Americans. Engraving by T.C Clark after Monroe.

Second bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America / [O.P. Hay].

History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal / by Thomas Hughes.

Regulations to govern prospecting for and mining of metalliferous minerals on unallotted lands of Indian reservations.

The viviparous quadrupeds of North America / By John Audubon ... and ... the Rev. John Bachman ... [Text].

Drugs and medicines of North America : a publication devoted to the historical and scientific discussion of botany, pharmacy, chemistry and therapeutics of the medical plants of North America, their constituents, products and sophistications ... v. 1-2; [Apr. 1884-June 1887].

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Second bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America / [O.P. Hay].

History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal / by Thomas Hughes.

Regulations to govern prospecting for and mining of metalliferous minerals on unallotted lands of Indian reservations.

The viviparous quadrupeds of North America / By John Audubon ... and ... the Rev. John Bachman ... [Text].

Drugs and medicines of North America : a publication devoted to the historical and scientific discussion of botany, pharmacy, chemistry and therapeutics of the medical plants of North America, their constituents, products and sophistications ... v. 1-2; [Apr. 1884-June 1887].