APPENDIX D. 



In estimating the policy which England is pursuing 

 towards the island of Jamaica, it is necessary to have in 

 the mind some proximate notion of the magnitude and 

 productive power of her colonial possessions, over which 

 governmental control has to be exerted. For the convenience 

 of my readers I have compiled the following statement of 

 their extent, population, and resources from E. Mont- 

 gomery Martin's elaborate work on " The British Colo- 

 nies." 



Teritorial Extent and Population. 



In Asia — Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Scinde, the N. W. 

 provinces of Iiindostan, the Punjaub, Assam, Arracan, 

 Savoy, Tenasserim, Wellesley Province, and Malacca ; the 

 Islands of Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, Labuan, Hong- 

 Kong ; area, (in round numbers,) seven hundred thousand 

 square miles ; population about one hundred and twelve 

 million. In addition to this territory actually belonging 

 to the British crown in Asia, there are tributary states, 

 extending over half a million square miles, and' containing 

 more than fifty million people. 



