142 Progress of Population and Wealth 



Virginia, and Ohio ; in commerce, New York, Pennsylvania, Louis- 

 iana, and Massachusetts ; in ocean navigation, next to Massachu- 

 setts and Maine, but far behind, is New York ; in internal naviga- 

 tion, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia furnish 20,000 

 out of the 30,000 employed. 



In Table V. we see the various ratios which the persons employ- 

 ed in the several branches of industry bear to the whole population 

 in the several divisions of the States. According to this table, 

 without regarding local diversities, and taking the whole United 

 States together, the great classes of occupation range themselves 

 in the following order, viz : 



The number of persons employed in agriculture, 1 out of 4$ 



" " " manufactures, " 21£ 



" " " commerce, " 145 



" " " the learned professions, " 261 



" *' " navigating the ocean, " 304 



" " " internal navigation, " 516 



" mining, " 1122 



Taking all the employments together, the number engaged is 355 

 out of every 1,000 of the whole population ; which implies, on the 

 grounds already stated, that there can be but a very small propor- 

 tion of males who are not occupied in some mode of profitable in- 

 dustry. 



