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disposition leads these islanders, like the Bis- 

 cayans and Catalonians, to the Philippines, to 

 the Marian islands, to America, and wherever 

 there are Spanish settlements, from Chili and la 

 Plata to New-Mexico. To them we are in a 

 great measure indebted for the progress of agri- 

 culture in those colonies. The whole Archipe- 

 lago does not contain 160,000 inhabitants, and 

 the Islennos are perhaps more numerous in the 

 new continent, than in their own country. The 

 following table indicates whatever relates to the 

 statistics of this country. 



