NORTH AMERICA. 
& Countries, Provinces, Number of 
oe and States. ’ Inhabitants. 
oy 
{Vermont in 1800 1545465 
New Hamphhire — 183,858 
Maffachufetts _— 422,845 
DiftriG& of Maine — 151,719 
Rhode Ifland _ 69,122 
Conneéticut — 257,002 
New York — 586,050 
q | New Jerf — 2115149 
z. Pennfylvanta — 602,545 
a elawa — 645273 
ca | Maryland — 349,692 
® | Virginia _ 886,149 
& 2 Kentucky — 220,929 
& | North Carolina _ 478,103 
> | South Carolina — 3453059 
B | Georgia — 162,686 
a. Tenneflee — 105,602 
by io — 42,159 
Wayne county, a diftine 4,206 
governmen 
Indiana territory, ~~ 6,407 
io river . 
Mififippi uel iar P — _ 8,840 
Louifiana, lately purchate t rere 
| by the United States. See MOUIANS 
unknown 
B | Welt Florida a 
rg ew Mexico — 
a California — 
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= (Mexico, or New Spain — 
See an account of each of the above-mentioned provinces 
{mall bands of wandering favages were the onl 
difcovered. After leaving the Lake of the Hills, he entered 
the Slave river, from which he paffed to the Slave lake, a 
large body of frefh water, in about N. lat. 61° and 62°, and 
This wandering tribe fpreads over 
a vaft extent of country. Their language is the fame as 
that of the natives on the waters of the St. Lawrence and 
They are of a moderate ftature, 
well proportioned and active. Their drefs is fimple, coun- 
tenance open, and eyes black. ‘Their women are the molt 
comely of favages, and not inattentive to their own perfons, 
but ftill pay miore attention to the decoration of the men 
Thefe people are affable, indulgent to their children, and 
hofpitable to ftrangers. Chaftity they confider not as a 
virtue; they make temporary exchanges of wives. and 
proffer of them te ftrangers 1s a part of their hofpitality ; 
inceft and beftiality are not uncommon t their funerals 
the mourners cut off their hair, lacerate their flefh, blacken 
their faces; and widows, as in the eaft, fometimes facrifice 
themfelves. oking precedes all matters of importance. 
This facred rite fettles all differences between contending 
perfons; it is never violated. No perfon may join in this 
folemn aét, who has cohabited with a woman within 24 
hours-he ‘is unclean.” ; 
After proceeding down this river to N. lat. 69° 1', and 
about W. long. 134°, he reached the tide waters of the 
Frozen ocean ; but in the middle of July was forbidden to 
proceed any further by extenfive fields of ice, and returned 
Chepewyan fort, having been abfent roz days. In 
OGober 1792, he proceeded on a voyage to the N. Pacific 
0 From the Lake of the Hills he afcended the Peace 
river, which in the drieft feafon is a quarter of a mile in 
breadth; the foil on each fide is low and rich. Like other 
unchriftianized people, the Indians on this river praétife 
polygamy e women ate in the lowelt ftate of debafe- 
ment ; more indecent and filthy than the men. The females 
perform all the drudgery allotted to brutes in civilized fo- 
ciety, excepting what aid they receive from a few {mall 
dogs. While the men carry nothing but a gun, their wives 
and daughters follow with fuch oppreffive burdens, that if 
they lay them down they are unable to raife them again. 
This help the men will not deign to lend them ; they often, 
therefore, lean ayainft a tree for a partial, temporary relief. 
Thefe people are total firangers to the moft fimple remediés 
in time of ficknefs. At their funerals, among other extra- 
vagant tokens of grief, the females, for the death of a 
favourite fon, or hufband, or father, fometimes cut off a 
Some of the old women have not 
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y not . Thefe favages are 
great gamefters, purfuing the bufinefs fometimes for a fuc- 
tives we re numerous and permanent ; the manner of 
living more comfortable, the ftate of fociety fomewhat im- 
proved: men to k 
n hewn on two fides; the end of the ridge- 
pole was carved in the form of a {nake’s head ; the infides of 
frequently feen near the fea, which the natives had purchafed 
of European fhips. The foil is good; alder trees are 7$ 
feet in circumference, and 4@ feet without a branch ; sag 
are 24 feet in circumference and proportionably high. 
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