134l COMPARISON BETWEEN 



and the scanty population of the plains, 102 inhabitants to the 

 square league. An analogous modification gives the pro- 

 vince of Caracas alone a relative population of 208, that 

 is, only one-seventh less than that of the Atlantic States of 

 North America. 



As in political economy, numerical statements become 

 instructive only by a comparison with analogous facts, I 

 have carefully examined what, in the present state of the 

 two continents, might be considered as a small relative 

 population in Europe, and a very great relative population in 

 America. I have, however, chosen examples only from among 

 the provinces which have a continued surface of more than 

 600 square leagues, in order to exclude the accidental accu- 

 mulations of population which occur around great cities ; 

 for instance, on the coast of Brazil, in the valley of Mexico, 

 on the table-lands of Santa 3Te de Bogota and Cuzco ; OP 

 finally, in the smaller "West India Islands (Barbadoes, 

 Martinique, and St. Thomas), of which the relative popula- 

 tion is from 3000 to 4700 inhabitants to the square league, 

 and consequently equal to the most fertile parts of Holland, 

 Prance, and Lombardy. 



MINIMUM OF EUROPE. To the 



The four least populous Governments of European Russia: sq. league, 

 Archangel .... .... 10 



Olonez 42 



Wologda and Astracan . , 52 



Finland 106 



The least populous Province of Spain, that of Cuenca . .311 

 The Duchy of Luneburg (on account of the heaths) . . 550 

 The least populous Department of Continental France (Hautes 



Alps) 758 



Departments of France thinly peopled (the Creuse, the Var, and 



theAude) 1300 



MAXIMUM OF AMERICA. 



The central part of the Intendencias of Mexico and Puebla, 



above 1300 



In the United States, Massachussets, but having only 522 square 



leagues of surface 900 



Massachussets, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, together . 840 



The wbole Intendencia of Puebla 540 



The whole Intendencia of Mexico . . . IGQ 



