376 



the eastern part of the state of Louisiana, are computed by 

 Mr. Morse at 484,000 square miles $ and the whole division 

 £ (adding 90/200 -f 6,900 for the portion of the Atlantic 

 States and Florida, on the west of the Alleghanies), at 

 581,100 square miles. It thence results for « -f- 0, 920,700 

 square miles, only one ninety-fifth less than the area which 

 I stated (see above, p. 179,) for the territory of the United 

 States east of the Mississipi. 



A surface of 2,086,800 square miles furnished to the in- 

 dustry of a laborious people wisely governed, is ten times 

 larger than France. It need not be augmented by substitut- 

 ing, as some American engineers have seemed recently to 

 desire (on occasion of the rectification of the limits of Cana- 

 da), geocentric latitudes (the angle formed by the inclination 

 of the earth with the equator) for ordinary latitudes. {Quart. 

 Journ. of Sciences, 1823, Jan., p. 412.) 



In comparing the area of the great divisions with the 

 number of inhabitants which the enumeration of 1820 yields, 

 we find : 



I. In the 15 Atlantic States (from Maine to 

 Georgia), consequently without the Flo- 

 rida on both sides of the Alleghanies, 

 on 30,900 square marine leagues, or 

 :370,000 square English miles : 



Absolute population 7,420,762 



Relative population on the sq. mar. lea. 239 



II. Between the Atlantic States and the left 

 bank of the Mississipi (also without Flo- 

 rida), on 42,000 square leagues. 



Absolute population 1,982,998 



Relative population on the sq. mar: lea. 47 



III. Between the right bank of the Missis- 

 sipi and the coast of the Pacific Ocean, on 

 96,600 square leagues, or 1,156,000 

 square miles. 



