114 



htjmboldt's cuba. 



Whitas. 



F. Colored. 



Slaves. 



Total. 



1791 23,737 



9,751 



10,849 



44,337 



1810 41,227 



25,979 



28,908 



96,114 



Increase, 17,490 



, 16,228 



17,059 



51,777 



Proportions of 

 the three classes 



53_22—25 



43—27—30 



Increase of Whites, 73 ■ 



F. Colored, 171 



" Slaves, 165 



" all classes, 117 



per cent. 



We find that the population has more than doubled 

 in the twenty years from 1791 to 1810, in which time 

 the population of New York, the largest city of the 

 United States, has risen from 33,200 souls to 96,400, 

 and at the present time (1825) reaches 140,000, being 

 consequently a little larger than Havana, and nearly 

 equal to Lyons. 



We cannot doubt that the great accumulation of 

 unacclimated foreigners in a confined and populous 

 city augments the mortality, and yet notwithstand- 

 ing the effects of the yellow fever, in the compari- 

 son of births and deaths, the results are .much less 

 affected by it than are commonly supposed. When 

 the number of blacks imported is not large, and the 

 activity of trade does not bring together at one time 

 a large number of unacclimated sailors, the number 

 of births very nearly equals the number of deaths. 



