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The table, N°. 3, exhibits the ratio of free white males 
to free white females, in the feveral ftates, refpectively, 
including the South-Weftern territory: And N°. 4, fhews 
fimilar proportions, for the before mentioned four feGions 
of this ftate. | 
By the cenfus, it is found, that the intire number of free 
white male inhabitants, in all the ftates, collectively, is, 
to the number of that defcription under fixteen years of 
age, in the fame, as 100 of the former to 49. 52, of the 
latter: and it may be prefumed, that nearly the fame ratio 
obtains among the females. It is alfo found, that the 
number of free white male, to that of the free white fe— 
male inhabitants, in all the flates, collectively (and includ- 
ing therewith, the South-Weftern territory), is, as too 
of the former to 96. 35, of the latter. 
Although there are in the United States, (taking the 
South-Weitern territory, likewife, into the calculation) 
nearly ¢9,000 more free white males than free white fe- 
males; yet it- appears, that the ftates. of Maffachufetts, 
Rhode-Iiland and Conneticut, contain nearly 9,000 more 
of the latter than of the former. In general, there is the 
higheft proportion of females in thofe ftates, from which 
there have been the greateft emigrations; becaufe more 
men than women migrate:—Hence we find the higheft 
proportions of males in Kentuckey, Vermont and the 
South-Weltern territory, ¢o which the moft numerous mi- 
grations have recently been made. 
We obferve, alfo, the higheft proportions of perfons un- 
der fixtcen years of age, inthe ftates of Kentuckey, North- 
Carolina, Georgia, South-Carolina, and Virginia; where 
the population is thin, in comparifon with the extent of 
territory, and where—owing to the facility of acquiring: 
Jands, from which ample and certain fubftftence is readily 
obtained—- people marry earlier in life and produce the 
more children. 
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