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settlers have given a peculiar character to Michigan, which it still re- 

 tains. It will be remenibered that in 1837-8, the disastrous commer- 

 cial revulsion occurred, and thousands of city mercantile men were 

 suddenly cast from opulence into poverty; numbers of these, with their 

 families, found their way to this State ; a large portion of them became 

 farmers ; others were scattered anions the risins: villaores ; and thus, 

 from the first, the polished manners, the educated ability, and the prac- 

 tised experience of our largest eastern cities were sown broadcast over 

 the country, to produce, in the present generation, a most promising 

 harvest. Foreigners to a very limited extent have sought this State as 

 a home, but have passed round the lakes to Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. 

 The following table, from the census of 1850, will give a just idea of 

 the population. The Hollanders, as well as some of the Germans, have 

 colonized by themselves: — 



TABLE OF THE KATIVITIES OF THE POPULATION OF MICHIGAN, 1850. 



Maine, 1,117 



New Hampshire, 2,744 



Vermont, 11,113 



Massachusetts,' 8167 



Rhode Island, 1,03 1 



Connecticut, 6 751 



New York, 133,756 



New Jersey, 5,572 



Pennsylvania, 9,452 



Delaware, 36s 



Maryland, 537 



District of Columbia, _. 45 



Virginia, 1,504 



North Carolina, 312 



South Carolina, 81 



Georgia, _ 68 



Florida, 12 



Alabama, jg 



Mississippi, 34 



Louisiana, 30 



Texas, 4 



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