24© POPULATION IN N. AMERICA. Oct. 20, 



eight years their numbers have been ahiioil doubled, 

 and many caufes muft tend to produce an incrcaftng 

 rapidity of population. In reading the Gazette of the 

 United States for four months of this current year, 1 

 obferved not a fiugle robbery or murder, and but our 

 execution, that of an Iriihman, at Charleftown in 

 South Carolina. 



Their taxes are trifling, their fituation is in many 

 refpecSts better than it ever has bsen ; and if in the 

 courfe of eight years 2,400,0000 people have multi- 

 plied to four millions, it follows by the fame rule, 

 that in the next ten years, tliey mult, if circumftances 

 continue the fame, encreafe to 8,200,000. But let us 

 fuppofc, for the fake of moderation, that at the end of 

 this century they are not to exceed 6,0000,000 ; and if 

 we compute, that, after that time, their numbers fliall 

 double only once in every twenty years, the fum total 

 in the year ipco mull rife to 192,000,000 *. We can 

 have no doubt, that long before that jera, they will 

 expel the European governments from every corner of 

 both continents of America- The demand for Britifli 

 manufactures will, perhaps, encreafe an hundred fold. 

 The riches of Mexico and Peru will then, it is to be 

 hoped, be laid open to the whole commercial world. 

 The ineftimable art of printing will prcferve the fame 

 of our claflic authors with a fecurity unattainable in 

 former ages. It flatters the pride of a Briton to fore- 

 fee, that in the days of our grandfons, the language 

 and writings of Wafliington, I'Vanklin, Dryden, and 

 Shakefpeare, will be (ludicd aiul revered at the mouths 

 of the Amazon, and the fource of the Millburi. 



* This number wijl at firS: fight appear cxtravr.gan; ; but as we fee 

 that the coloniftsat prefciit have adlually alnioft douWcd th^ir numbers 

 in e'trli years, it is furely but reafonable to allov/ that they niay here- 

 aftei- continue to doubls them once every t-wentj years. In Canada, I 

 have been well afTured, tliat the inhabitants multiply as faft as in any 

 other part of the continent : and the defcendents of that great body of 

 people, (bcfiies ti.ofc of Kova Scotia and the two Fioridias,) are not 

 included in the calculation of the text. 



