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Statiftical Table of the Ejctent of the- Pari/hcs of the State of Louifiana, and their Population in iSic. 



For an account of the ftate of Indiana, fee Territory 

 and Indiana. 



For an account of the MiJJlJfippi Territory, fee Territory 

 and Mississippi. 



For the Illinois Territory, fee Territory and Illinois. 



For the North-JVeJl Territory, fee Territory. 



For the Mijouri Territory, fee Territory and Mis- 

 souri. 



For the Michigan Territory, fee Territory and De- 

 troit. 



The territory of Orleans comprehends the county of Or- 

 leans, the German coaft, Acadia, Lafourche, Iberville, 

 Point Coupee, Concordia, Ouachitta, Rapides, Natchi- 

 toches, Opeloufas, and Attacapan ; and by the cenfus of 

 1810, its whole population confiftcd of 76,556 perfons. 

 (See Okleans and Louisiana). Mclilh's Geographical 

 befcription of the United States. Philadelphia. 1816. 

 Morfe's Geography. 



To the preceding general account of the United States, 

 the Editor fubjoins the pleafing information with which lie 

 is furnifhed by the 13th report of the Britifli and Foreign 

 Bible Society (1817), that 130, or upwards, of fuch focie- 

 ties have been edablifhcd in thefe States, among which arc nu- 

 merous female inftitutions : and that, in confequence of a 

 convention of delegates from different Bible focicties, held in 

 the city of New York, in May 18 16, afociety was inikituied 

 under the name of " The American Bible Society," of which 

 the fole objeft fliould be to encourage a wider circulation of 

 the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment. Several of 

 the American focieties have received pecuniary aid from the 

 Brifilh and Foreign Bible Society. 



United States' Saline, a towndiip of the Illinois terri- 

 tory, in the county of Randolph, containing 845 inha- 

 bitants. 

 Vol. XXXVII 



UNITY, Unitas, the abftraft, or quality, which con- 

 ftitutes, or denominates a thing unum, or one. 



The fchool philofophers generally define unity, by a 

 thing's being undivided in itfelf, and divided from every 

 thing elfe. Others, more accurately, define it, a mode of 

 being, by which it agrees to any particular being, once : 

 thefe make two kinds of unity, "viz.. unity of Jtmplicity, 

 which is both undivided and indivifible ; fuch as that of 

 God, angels, and human fouls : the other, union of compo- 

 Jltion, which, though undivided, is divifible in the being, as 

 confifting of divers parts ; fuch is that of man, &c. 



Hence, unity is alfo divided into that ^.'ry^, which agrees 

 to any being whofe parts are collefted into one fubftratuni : 

 and imky per accidens, whofe parts are not united into one 

 fubftratum, as that of a flock of fheep, &c. 



Some alfo make a fitigular, or numerical unity, andaii 

 univerfal unity ; a real, and an imaginary unity, &c. 



It is difputed among mathematicians, whether or not unity 

 be a number ? The generality of authors hold the negative, 

 and make unity to be only inceptive of number, or the 

 principle of it ; as a point is of magnitude, and an unifon 

 of concord. 



Stevinus is very angry with the maintainers of this 

 opinion : and yet, if number be defined a multitude of 

 units joined together, as many authors define it, it is evi- 

 dent that unity is not itfelf a number. 



It is to be obferved in algebra, that unity itfelf has three 

 different expreffions of its cube root, one real, and the other 

 two impoffible, or imaginary. Thus the three cube roots of 



- ' + ^^ - 3 , - ' - ^'- 3 



I, are 1, , and • 



2 4 



This is fometimes of iifo in Iniding the cube roots 01 

 quantities, appearing under nnpoflible exprrflTions. 



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