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say that, as a rule admitting very few excep- 

 tions, the first generation of emigrants arc worn 

 away with labor and care, and with no small 

 share of regret, before the second can be placed 

 in as happy homes as were left for shadowy 

 hopes. Were the Atlantic border of the United 

 States, like the Pacilic boi-der of China, teeming 

 with an overcharged population, relief would 

 be naturally and rationally sought, by removal 

 to a w^ildemess. or thinly peopled region, with 

 a productive soil and temperate climate, did 

 such offer; but, from spaces where the maxi- 

 mum of distributive population falls far short of 

 fifty to the square mile, and Avhere two hundred 

 on equal surface could find support, with the 

 enjoyment of every comfort of life, there must 

 exist some great defect in modes of thinking to 

 superinduce extensive emigration. 



In the selection of element for the following 

 comparative tables, I have not included either 

 Maine or Ne\\--York, as causes peculiar to both 

 these States have hifluenced their political his- 

 tory. The sections adopted have been compar- 

 atively less influenced by exteraal causes than 

 most other parts of the United States, and, as to 

 soil, have in themselves much in common. — 

 They have all, in a peculiar degree, the advan- 

 tages of commercial facilities, but these south- 

 ward of New-York in a much greater extent 

 tlian tlio.se to the northward. The period chosen 

 of thirty years, from ISIO to 1840, wa.s, perhaps, 

 of any portion of time since the English Colo- 

 nies were originally formed in North America, 

 the one best calculated to illustrate the philoso- 

 phy of our statistical history. 



Table I. Tahle of the Prof;ressivc ropulafioa of the Five States named, from 1810 to 1840, 

 (7s d<;diiceA from, the rc/pective Census Retiirits of those yews. 



Vermont 



New-Hampshire. 

 Massachusetts — 



Connecticut 



Rhode Island . . . 



Amount.. 



Table II. Talk of the Progressirc Fopnlation of the Lojcer or Maritime Counties of New- 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the -whole three Counties of Delaware, from 1810 to 



1840. 



With similar views which induced mc to 

 construct the foregoing tables, I drew up a 

 rough table of that part of Virginia ea.st of the 

 Blue Ridge, and intended to copy it for your 

 use ; but, finding it divided into sixty-five coun- 

 ties, some of which had been, from 1810 to 1840, 

 divided, I considered it more satisfactory to pre- 

 sent the whole in one point of view. That pait 

 of Virginia has a rather remarkable approach to 

 a triangle, having two hundred and sixty miles 

 along the Blue Ridge — a very near equal di.s- 

 tanco on North-Carolina — and, in direct distance, 

 (7:;oi 



about two hundred and twenty from the south- 

 eastern angle on the Atlantic Ocean to the 

 northern at the mouth of the Shenandoali : area 

 about 27,000 square miles. 



On this space, in 1810, by the census returns 

 o, that year, there existed a population of 705,- 

 190; which mass had, in the ensuing thirty 

 years, augmented to 800,036, or increased by 

 •slow ratio of 1134. Many of the counties re- 

 mained nearly stationaiy, while some, similar 

 to several in Table II . had diminishes! in popn- 

 lation. 



