BOUNDARIES 



DEPARTMENTS 



POPULATION. 



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cension, and the Honda or Rio Grande pour into the Caribbean Sea. 

 In 1841 the population of the State is stated in a census, taken by 

 order of the government, as follows : 



Departments. Men. Women. Total. 



Merida, 48,606 58,663 107,269 



Izamal, 32,915 37,933 70,848 



Tekax, 58,127 64,697 122,824 



Valladolid, 45,353 46,926 92,279 



Campeche, .... 39,017 40,639 79,656 



Total, 224,018 248,858 472,876 



This census, although it professes to be accurate, may neverthe- 

 less be incomplete, inasmuch as the inhabitants of Yucatan, dread- 

 ing new contributions and detesting military service, endeavor to 

 reduce as much as possible the number of their families in the lists 

 prepared for government. Besides this, it does not appear to com- 

 prehend all the departments according to Miihlenpfordt, who divides 

 the State into fifteen departments. 1 The population has been esti- 

 mated by some careful writers, acquainted with the people and the 

 country, at 525,000 souls ; in our table of population on page 42 of 

 this volume, we have on good authority stated the number to be, 

 in 1842, 508,948, while others have increased the number to 600,- 

 000 and even to 630,000, which amount is assigned to Yucatan by 

 a census in 1833! The last mentioned number will give about 165 

 individuals to each square league. 2 



The character and quality of the productions of Yucatan may be 

 estimated by the following statistical table, which has been transla- 

 ted and published by Mr. Stephens in the first volume of his Inci- 

 dents of Travel in that State. 



1 Bacalar, Campeche, Ichmul or Izamal, Isla de Carmen, Jequetchacan, Junoma, 

 Lerma, Mama, Merida, Oxhuscab, Seyba, Playa, Sotula, Tizizimin, and Valladolid. 

 These are the names of the Departments given by Miihlenpfordt : the first table is 

 taken from Stephens. 



2 Our table of population on page 43 of this volume, adds about 10 per cent, to this 

 number to give the population estimated in 1850. 



