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Progress of Population and Wealth 



The comparative decrease of life of the IVhite, Free Coloured, and Slave population in 

 the United States : the black horizontal lines showing the proportion of persons living 

 at and above the ages respectively annexed. The outer curve ?narks the lines of the 

 Free Colored, the middle, that of the Whites, and the inner, that of the Slaves. 



The diagram following shows the proportion of living males, 

 at different ages, in England and Connecticut,* in conformity with 

 the following comparison of the distribution of life in the two coun- 

 tries, as exhibited by the census of Great Britain, in 1821, and by 

 that of the United States, in 1840. According to these, of every 

 10,000 males there are living 



* This State is selected because it is one of the few which do not gain by immigration. 



