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island is about fifteen miles long, in a dlreclion from northeast to 

 southwest, and about ten miles irom north to south in its widest part, 

 but that wiilth is net uniform. 



TOWNSHIPS AND POPULATION. 



The county is divided into four townships, viz: Northfield, South- 

 field, Westfield and Castleton, which names indicate the lelative por- 

 tions of the Island they occupy. 



The population, by the United States census of 1840, was ten 

 thousand nine hundred and eighty-five. By the State census of 1835, 

 the population of the county was seven thousand six hundred and 

 ninety-one, showing an increase of three thousand two hundred and 

 ninety-four, or forty-two per cent in five years. 



In summing up the aggregate of the population from the tabular 

 statements, contained in the Legislative Document published at Al- 

 bany, (No. 117 in Assembly,) 8th Feb. 1841, we find the inhabitants 

 of Staten-Island arranged as follows: 



Males, 5,235 



Females, 5,237 



Free negroes, 459 



10,931 

 To these must be added for omissions or typo- 

 graphical errors, 54 



Total inhabitants in 1840, J 0,985 



BUSINESS EMPLOYMENTS. 



The active business part of the inhabitants were that year engaged 

 as follows: 



Employed in agriculture, 841 



" commerce, 340 



" trades and manufactures, 786 



" navigating the ocean, 212 



" navigating bays and rivers, 441 



" the learned professions and as engineers, 90 



" quarrying stone, 35 



In a population of nearly eleven thousand, there were found only 

 thirty-seven persons over twenty years of age who could not read 

 and write, and these were mostly immigrant foreigners. 



By the foregoing statements, it will be seen that about one-sixth 

 of the male population, or one-thirteenth of the whole, are employed 

 in ao-riculture. 



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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. 



Staten-Island, though not altogether an agricu'tural county, and 

 though one of the smallest in the State, is productive of many of the 



