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Names of the Islands fotaljpopula. 



p) Bahama Islands 



q) Behmudan 



LANDS - - 



1s- 



1U Haiti, French 

 and Spanish - - 



15,500 



14,500 



820,000 



11,000 



5,000 



Observations and Variations. 



1810, total 17,485, of whom 14,397 were 

 slaves; free men of colour, 1878 ; whites, 

 1210. Offi. Reg. of 1817, slaves, 15,893 ; 

 of 1820, slaves, 13,050. 



Partly beyond the limits of the torrid 

 zone. In 1810, total 16,718, of whom 

 11,146 were slaves. (Now probably 11,000 

 slaves ; free coloured population, 2500- 

 3000 ; whites, 1500.) 



Small archipelago, situated in the tempe- 

 rate zone, and far distant from the rest of 

 insulary America. In 1791, total 10,780, 

 of whom 4919 were slaves; in 1812, total 

 9900, of whom 4794 were slaves. 



Mr. Necker, in 1799, admitted in the 

 French party total 288,803 ; in 1788, total 

 520,000, of whom 40,000 were whites; freed- 

 men, 28,000 ; slaves, 452,000 ; in 1802, Mr. 

 Page estimated the total population at only 

 375,000, of whom 290,000 were labourers. 

 In 1819, according to the observation of 

 General Pamphile-Lacroix, the French part 

 contained 501,000, of whom 480,000 were 

 blacks, 20,000 mulattoes, and 1000 whites ; 

 Spanish part, 135,000, of whom 110,000 

 were blacks, and 25,000 whites. General 

 Macaulay, whose researches always bear the 

 character of philanthropy and the love of 

 truth, thinks that the total population of 

 Haiti exceeds 750,000, among whom, in 

 the French part, 600,000 were negroes 

 and mulattoes, and 4000 whites ; in the 

 Spanish part, 120,000 negroes and mulaU 

 toes, and 26,000 white Creoles. In the 

 French part, the number of mixed blood, 

 ?4,000. The last official numeration yields 

 935,335, among whom, in the circle of 

 Jacme4 only, 99,408; of Port au Prince, 



