100 Progress of Population and Wealth 



children under ten than the whites,* they are also subject to greater 

 mortality in after life, and, perhaps, the last circumstance may 

 balance or nearly balance the first. These, and other questions 

 connected with the progress of our population, can be accurately 

 solved only after fuller and more frequent statistical details than 

 we now possess. 



* It must, however, be remembered, that a part of the excess must be referred to 

 emancipation, which, by being confined to adults, enhances the proportion of children. 

 But the precise extent of this disturbing influence we have no means of ascertaining. 



