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by decades, correct to the nearest thousand. Most of these figures 

 were found in the Compendium of the Eleventh Census, Section on 

 Population, Table 4a. The base is given in thousands. Three zeros 

 [000] are omitted in each case. 



In the cases of Bangor, Portsmouth, Newburyport, Salem, Charles- 

 town, Roxbury, Dorchester, Hingham, Norwich and Litchfield, the 

 population figures were compiled from figures given in the reports of 

 each decennial census. In a few cases the data were incomplete, and 

 population estimates had to be made for Cambridge, 1830; Charles- 

 town, 1790; Litchfield, 1790 and 1830; Norwich, 1790 and 1830; Hart- 

 ford, 1790; New Haven, 1790; and Albany, 1810. 



It would have been desirable to use figures for the white population 

 only, but the colored population was not reported separately in the 

 earlier censuses. A rough and partial correction was made for the 

 colored population in cities south of Mason and Dixon's line and the 

 Ohio River. It was assumed that the colored population had always 

 constituted the same proportion of the population of these cities that it 

 did in 1900. The appropriate figure was then subtracted from the total 

 population in each decade, to obtain the figure given as the population 

 base. Since the proportion of the colored population of these cities 

 has tended to increase, the resulting figure is somewhat smaller than 

 it should be in reality. The figure for the literary productivity of 

 these cities is therefore correspondingly larger. In the case of the 

 northern cities for which no correction for the colored population 

 was made, the figure for the population base is of course somewhat too 

 large, and the index is correspondingly small. 



2 In determining the population base of Philadelphia and Brooklyn, 

 figures for areas which have since been annexed to them were included, 

 and literati born in those areas were of course also credited to the 

 annexing cities. 



3 The population base of New Orleans contains no figures from 

 censuses prior to 1810. 



4 No index is given for cities having a population base of less than 

 fifty, as it would be spuriously accurate and therefore misleading. 



