290 



THE VICTORIA BRIDGE. 



[1864. 



It will tako 30 years unassisted )y i nmigrntinn. 



25 yeara assisted a. nua ly by 5,000 immigrants. 

 21 ditto auto ' lo.iiiiii ditto. 



18 ditto ditto 15,000 ditto. 



l(i ditto ditto 20,000 ditto. 



15 ditto ditto 25,000 ditto. 



It is not considered necessary to extend this statement by en- 

 tering upon the calculations as to (lie increased value given to 

 lands, by being settled in the manner laid down, as there is no 

 correct data within reach as to the average value of wild land, 

 .and that of land settled in the ratio established; hut should 

 these points be ascertained, the calculations would he very 

 simple, although tedious from their number, were they pursued 

 to each year mentioned in the table. 



TABLE 

 Showing the annual increase of inhabitants in I'jiper Canada to the year 

 is 17, and subsequent periods mentioned, until they shall /™cA2,000)000 

 souls, nt three and a half per cent, per annum, compoundiag the increase 

 with the principal : — 



Annual increase upon each million of inhabitants, and period 

 in which the population would double itself if the increase con- 

 tinued uniform: — 



Unassisted bj 

 Emigration. 



assisted anm 

 ally by 5001 

 Emigrants. 



Assisted anm 



:illv l.\ 10 



Emigrants. 



assisted nnm 

 ally by 15001 

 Emigrants. 



Assisted anm 

 aUy by 20,001 

 Emigrants. 



Assistedannn 



ally by 25,000 

 hi::! - iruta 



Year. Inhbts 



1838... 400001 

 14001 



fear. Inhbts 



1S38... 400 



1900U 



Year. Inhbts 



1838... 4( II 



24001 



War. Inhbts 



1838... 400001 



29000 



Year. Inhbts 

 1S3S... 400000 



: 14001 



Year. Inhbts. 



1S3S... 400000 



39000 



1839... 414001 

 14401. 



IS39... 419000 

 19665 



1839... 424001 

 24841 



1S39... 429001 

 30015 



1S39... 434000 

 35190 



1839... 439000 

 40365 



1S40... 428491 

 14997 



1S40... 43866S 

 20353 



1S40... 448841 

 2570S 



1840... 45901J 

 31065 



1S40... 40lil0( 

 36421 



1S40... 479305 

 41777 



1841... 4434S7 

 15522 



1841... 45901S 



21065 



1841... 47454H 

 20609 



1841... 490081 

 32152 



1S41... 505011 

 37696 



1841... 521142 

 43239 



1S42... 459009 

 16065 



1S42... 4800S3 

 21S02 



1S42... 501158 

 27541 



IS42... 522232 

 3327S 



1S42... 543307 

 39015 



1S42... 564881 

 44753 



1S43... 475074 

 16027 



1S43... 501SSJ 

 2256; 



IS43... 52869? 

 2S504 



1843... 555510 

 34442 



1S43... 5S2322 

 40381 



1843... 009134 

 40319 



1844... 491701 

 17209 



1S44... 524451 

 23355 



1844... 557201! 

 29502 



1S44... 589952 

 35648 



1S44... 622703 

 41794 



1844... 655453 

 47940 



1S45... 608910 

 17S11 



1845... 54780;, 

 2417:. 



1845... 5S6704 

 30534 



IS45... 625600 

 30896 



1S45... 004497 

 43257 



1845... 703393 

 49618 



1S46... 526721 

 18435 



1846... 07197* 

 25019 



IS46... 617238 

 3160; 



IS47... 648S41 



1846... 66249(1 

 3S1S7 



1S46... 707754 

 44771 



1S46... 753011 

 51355 



1S47... 545156 



1847... 596997 



1S47... 7006S3 



1S47... 752525 



1847... S04360 



to ) 

 1856 y 742987 

 lOysj 



to "I 



1856 V 865483 

 lOysj 



to ) 



1856> 9879S4 

 lOysj 



to "I 

 1856 J-11104S0 

 lOysj 



to -| 

 1856 J-12329S0 

 lOysj 



to "I 



1856 -1355476 

 lOysj 



tol 



1S65 V1012609 

 10ys) 



to "I 

 1805 U231401 

 lOysj 



to "I 



I860 J-145020C 

 lOysj 



to -1 

 IS65 J-100S99S 

 lOysj 



to") 

 1865 J-1S877S9 

 19ysl 



to I 

 1864 -2011191 

 9ys.J 



*° 1 

 1874 V138007S 



10ysJ 



to 1 

 1874 J- 173011: 

 lOysj 



to "I 

 1873 U000150 

 JysJ 



to "I 

 1370 .206267J 

 0.VS.J 



to") 



1867 i-2062946 

 5ys.J 





to 'l 



1883 U880901 

 lOysj 



to ") 



1878 V 200641:' 

 5ys.J 











to") 



1885 ^2014S67 

 3ys.J 









If the number of inhabitants in any given year be multiplied 

 by 32, it will show the number of acres settled : or, if it be di- 

 vided by 20, it will give the number of statute miles settled. 



The following table, given by Baron Cb. Dupin in his " Forces 

 Productives et Commerciales de la France,'' showing the rate of 

 increase in the population of the principal States of Europe, is 

 highly curious, and may not be considered irrelevant to this 

 statement : — 



lucre:!-. ■ in 



I'm -sin, 



1,000,000 inhabitants. 

 27,027 



26 



•12 

 56; 



63 



66 



60 



105 



'doubling, 

 years. 



Britain,* 



16,667 



Netherlands, 



12,372 







11,111 







|n.."il!7 







In, lil 





Franco, 













* This est i inn 1 e is made upon the population of Europe in 1*27, and 

 as respect Great Britain is rather high; from 1811 t.. 1x21 the in- 

 crease was about 13,700 for Britain; for Ireland it might be about 

 2l),iiOH: ami for both 15,800, and the period of doubling 



Von M.-ilclnis states the annual increase in all Europe t" be 1 

 cent., 011 about 215,000,II<.IU inhabitants — the average issue of inar- 

 riagea four children. 



XOTES. 



(1) In 1832 the public domain in the new States ami territories un- 

 sold, to which the Indian title had been extinguished, was estimated 

 at 227,298,884 acres. 



And the quantity in the same, to which the Indian 



title had nut been extinguished, at . . . 113,577,809 



340,871,753 



The quantity of land beyond the limi'ts of those 



States and territories, has been estimated . 750,000,000 



1,090,871,753 



■ — Pitkin's Statistics of the United Stales, 1835. 



(2) The average value of lands per acre (ir.c'uding building?), ac- 

 cording to the valuations in 1814 and iu 1815, ranged for each State from 

 four dollars, the value of lands in Kentucky, to 39 dollars, the value of 

 land in Ithode Island. The average value in 1814 of lauds throughout 

 the United States was about ten dollars per acre. — Pitkin's Statistics. 



(3) According to the rate of increase upon the previous censu- in 

 1820, which gave an increase of 3,227,830 souls, the population might 

 probably have been in 1834, 15,000,000 inhabitants. 



(4) The population of Upper Canada, according to the census for 

 1811 was 77,000 1*27 was 176, 



1824 ... 151,000 1S2S ... 185,526 



• 1826 ... 103,702 1830 ... 215,000 



(5) Vide Bouchette. 



(0) The number of acres under agricultural improvement in 1828 

 did not exceed 570,000 acres. — (Vide Bouchette.) 



(7) T. Neilson, "Prize Essay." 



(8) The population in 1838 being 400,000 inhabitants, would thus 

 settle 12,800,000 acres. 



Tlie Grand Truiilt Railway — The Victoria Bridge* 



We are indebted to the kind and ready acknowledgement of 

 a request made in the name of the Council of the Canadian In- 

 stitute to Alexander Mackenzie Ross, Esq., Engineer in Chief of 

 the Grand Trunk Railway, for the original copy of the engraving 

 of the Victoria Bridge, which appears in the present number of 

 the Canadian Journal. 



This remarkable structure will be without a rival upon the 

 Continent of America, and may, perhaps, be the most stupendous 

 and imposing work of its class in tbe world. Mr. Boss describes 

 the Victoria Bridge in the following comprehensive paragraph : — 



" No better description of the design can be given, than that 

 it consists of a wrought-iron box, 20 feet deep, 16 feet wide, and 

 about 7000 feet in length ; supported at intervals of about 260 

 feet, by towel's of stone, and open at both ends to admit of the 



