In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French.

On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken possession of that region many years before, and called it New Netherlands.
Grandfather, for aught I know, might have gone on to speak of Maryland and Virginia; for the good old gentleman really seemed to suppose, that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his chair upon.

But, happening to glance at Charley, he perceived that this naughty boy was growing impatient, and meditating another ride upon a stick.

So here, for the present, Grandfather suspended the history of his chair..