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measure in Brazil, in the Spanish colonies, and 

 even in the confederation of the United States^ 

 when considered in its whole extent. We find 

 in some intendances in Mexico (La Sonora and 



lat., comprehending the West Indies j and in estimating the 

 population as we hove done above, at 34,284,000, we 

 scarcely obtain 29 inhabitants to the square league. Now to 

 find a continuous surface of 600 square leagues, and which is 

 at the same time the most peopled of all America, we must 

 have recourse to a part of the table-land of Mexico, or of 

 New England, where three contiguous states, Massachusets, 

 Rhode Island, and Connecticut, contained in 1820, an en- 

 tire population of 881,594, on 12,504 square English miles, 

 consequently nearly 840 souls to the square marine league. 

 We can only select among the West India Islands, of which 

 the population is extremely concentrated, the Great Antilles ; 

 for the Little Antilles (or the Eastern Caribbean Isles), from 

 Culebra and St. Thomas to Trinidad, contain altogether 

 but 387 square leagues. Jamaica has nearly the same rela- 

 tive population as the three states of New England, which 

 we have just mentioned ; but its surface does not extend to 

 600 square leagues. St. Domingo (Haiti), which is five 

 times larger than Jamaica, has only 20(5 inhabitants to the 

 square league. Its relative population scarcely reaches that 

 of New 'Hampshire. I shall not venture to indicate the 

 fraction which we may suppose to be the minimum of the re- 

 lative population of the New World 5 for instance, in the 

 savannahs between the Meta and the Guaviare, or in Spanish 

 Guyana, between the Esmeralda, the Rio Erevato, and the 

 Rio Caura, or finally, in North America, between the source 

 of the Missouri and the Slave Lake. It is probable that the 

 relation of the extremes, found in Europe to be as 1 : 15, is, 

 in the New World, even excluding the Llanos or Pampas, at 

 least 1 : 8000. 



