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Population^ of the ten parishes within the Royalty 75,169 



Barony Parish. 



Anderson district • 7,1 L3 



St. Vincent St. and Blythswood estate district 7,941 



Port Dundas district 7,598 



Calton and Mile-end district , , . . , 15,616 



Bridge-town district 13,593 51,861 



GorbaFs parish, including Hutchcson-town, 



Lauries-town and Trades-town 2 1 ,768 



148,798 

 As several thousand persons had left the population district 

 for want of work during the few months which preceded the 

 enumeration, and as some of these persons may be expected 

 to return, the population may be fairly stated at 150,000 

 persons. 



8. Statistics of America. — The superficies of the territory of 

 the United States, from the Atlantic to the great ocean, is 

 estimated at 2,257,000 square miles, and the population at 

 11,000,000. The proportion of whites to blacks has increased 

 as follows, since the year 1790. In that year there were 27 

 blacks to 100 whites ; in 1800, the proportion was 20 to 100 ; 

 and in 1810, only 19 to 100. The number of emigrants that 

 arrived in the different states in 1794 was about 10,000 ; in 

 1817, 22,240, of whom 11,977 were British or Irish. From 

 the British possessions in America, there arrived, in the same 

 year 2,901 individuals. 



9. Carmine. — M. Von Grotthus says, that carmine may be 

 freed from its yellow shade, by treatment first with ammonia, 

 and then with acetic acid and alcohol. 



10. Death of an Elephant, — An elephant had been brought to 

 Geneva for exhibition some months ago, and was found to be 

 remarkably obedient and docile. In removing this animal 

 from place to place, it was not confined in a caravan, but 

 passed openly by the streets and roads, attended by three con- 

 ductors, and no accident had as yet happened in this way ; 

 but, on removing it from Geneva, the animal became ungo- 



