198 



To the 



Sq. League; 



The department of continental France the worst 

 peopled, (Upper Alps) 



Departments of France thinly peopled, (the Creuse, 

 the Var, and the Aude) " 



1300 



758 



Maximum of America. 



The central part of the intendancies of Mexico and 



Puebla*, above 



In the United States, Massachusets, but having 



1300 



only 522 square leagues of surface 



Massachusets, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, toge- 



900 



ther 



The whole intendancy of Puebla. 

 The whole intendancy of Mexico 



840 



540 



460 



These two Mexican intendancies together, are 

 nearly a third of the superficial extent of France, 

 with a suitable population (in 1823, nearly 

 2,800,000 souls), to prevent the towns of 

 Mexico and Puebla from having a sensible in- 

 fluence on the relative population. 

 Northern part of the province of Caraccas, (with- 

 out the Llanos) . .... 208 



This table shews that those parts of America 

 which we now consider as the best peopled, at- 

 tain the relative population of the kingdom of 

 Navarre, of Galicia, and the Asturias, which, 



* Is there a part of the United States, from 600 to 1000 

 square leagues in extent, of which the relative population 

 exceeds the maximum of New Spain, which is 1300 inhabit- 

 ants to the square league, or 109 to the square mile, 69*2 to 

 a degree ? The relative population of Massachusets, which is 

 75*5 to the square mile, and is regarded as very considerable, 



