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Note B. 



In order to facilitate the comparison of the late political 

 associations formed on the new continent, with the ancient 

 states of Europe, I shall here give a sketch of the surfaces, 

 and their population. The different countries are ranged ac- 

 cording to their extent, which is the least variable statistical 

 element. Every member has been the object of a particu- 

 lar discussion, and I have consulted every statistical work to 

 which I could find access. When the estimates of the 

 area differed considerably, 1 calculated anew the surfaces ac- 

 cording to the best maps. The area of the Iberian penin- 

 sula, for instance, is estimated at 18,155 square leagues, and 

 not, as M, Antillon asserts, at 18,443 j Spain, which was 

 heretofore believed to contain 16,097, or 15,863 square 

 leagues, has only 15,005. (Principios de Geografia, p. 135. 

 Elementos de la Geogr. de Espana, 1815, p. 141,143.) For 

 the area of Portugal (3,150 square leagues), I have followed 

 the calculation of colonel Franzini (Balbi, Essai statist* sur 

 le Portugal, Tom. i. p. 67). The population in my sketch 

 is chiefly applicable to the years 1820 and 1822. That of 

 France is founded on the enumeration of 1820, published by 

 M. Coquebert de Montbret, and comprehending the army. 

 The population of England is conformable to the enumera- 

 tion of 1821. (See Richnan, Enumeration of Parish Regis- 

 ters, 1823, p. 33 and 35). For the population, and the area 

 of Egypt, I am indebted to the unpublished researches of 

 3VL Jomard. 



