344 



Sq« Lea. 



lations of M. Lindenau and the maps of 

 the Deposito hidrografico of Madrid 

 (Zach's Monatl. Corresp., 1817 . Dec. ) . . . 8,303 



Total 1,186,930 



It results from these statements : 



Sq. Mar. Lea. 



North America, on the north of the south- 

 east extremity of the isthmus of Pana- 

 ma, contains 607,387 



Archipelago of the West Indies 8,303 



Population, 2,473,000. 



South America, on the south of the south- 

 east extremity of the Isthmus of Panama 571,290 



Population, 12,161,000. 



1,186,930 



If we compare these numbers with those 

 furnished by the most esteemed and re- 

 cent statistical works, we shall find, in 

 reducing the English miles and geogra- 

 phical leagues uniformly to square ma- 

 rine leagues, of 20 to a degree, the 

 total area of America with Greenland, 

 to be, according to Mr. Morse, {A 

 new system of Geography, 1822, p. 51,) 

 1,184,800 square leagues ; according to 

 M. Balbi (Compendio di Geogrqfia uni- 

 versale, 1819, p. 308), 1,327,000 square 

 leagues, America, nearly as far as the 

 parallel 68°, according to M. Hassel 

 ( Gasparif Hassel, und Cannabrich, Vollst. 

 Erdbeschreibung, 1822, B. 16), of 

 1,072,026 square leagues namely : 



