825 



Names of the Islands. 



Total popula 

 tion. 



JL Spanish Islands 

 a) Cuba - - 



Slaves. 



943,000 

 700,000 



Observations and Variations. 



281,400 

 256,000 



89,164; of Cayes, 63,536 ; of Aguni, 

 58,587 ; of Leogane, 55,662; of Miraba- 

 lais, 53,649 ; of Nepper, 44,478; of the 

 Cape Haitian, 38,566 ; of Tiburon, 37,927. 

 of Jeremy, 37,652 ; of Saint Mark, 37,628; 

 of the Great River, 35,372 ; of Gonaives, 

 33,542 ; of Lerube, 33,475 ; ofMarmelade. 

 32,852; of Santo Domingo, 20,076. {New 

 Monthly Mag., 1825, Feb., p. 69.) The 

 precautions taken by the Haitian govern 

 ment to obtain a precise result, are not 

 known. Having always in my labors on 

 political economy, prescribed to myself the 

 rule of publishing the lowest numbers, I 

 have diminished one-ninth the result of the 

 official numeration. The limit-numbers 

 are now 800,000 and 940,000. Very exag- 

 gerated assertions, connected with political 

 views, have carried the population of Haiti 

 to more than a million ; it is certain that 

 this population augments with extreme ra- 

 pidity, and is favored by wise institutions. 



According to an official document pre- 

 sented to the Cortes at Madrid, in 1821, 

 total 630,980, of whom 290,021 were whites; 

 free coloured population, 115,691 ; slaves, 

 225,268. Reclamation hecha pot* los repre- 

 entantes de la Isla de Cuba, contra los aran- 

 celes, p. 7. The number of slaves imported, 

 from 1817-1819, was from 15,000 to 26,000. 

 Letters from the Havannah to John Wilson 

 Croker, Esq., 1821, p. 18-36. These im- 

 portations are frightful ; even Rio Janeiro 

 does not receive a greater number in these 

 latter times ; namely, 1821, slaves, 20,852; 

 in 1822, slaves, 17,008; in 1823, slaves, 

 20,610 ; Offic. Correspond, with the Brit. 

 Commis., 1823, B., p. 109, 121. Alexan- 

 der Caldcleugh's Travels in Svuth America, 

 1825, Vol. ii, p. 266. (Mr. Melish, in his 

 American Geography, gives the island of 



