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Names of the Islands, 



Total popula 

 tion. 



V. Dutch, Danish 

 and Swedish Is 



LANDS - - 



a) Saint Eustache 

 and Saba 



b) Saint Martin 



c) CURA9OA 



d) Saint Croix 



e) Saint Thomas 



f) Saint John . 



g) Saint Bartho- 

 lomew - - - 



84,500 



18,000 



6,000 

 11,000 



32,000 

 7,000 

 2,500 



8,000 



Slaves. 



6i,300 



12,000 



4,000 



6,500 



27,000 



5,500 



2,300 



4,000 



Observations and Variations. 



No island presents greater uncertainty. 

 M. Malte Brun (Geogr. Vol. v, p. 748) esti- 

 mates the total population in 1815, at only 

 6400, of whom 5000 were whites, 600 free 

 coloured men, and 800 slaves. But this 

 numher of whites is little probable. M. J. 

 Van den Bosch (Neder landsehe Overzeesche 

 Bezittingen, 1818, Vol. ii, p. 232) fixes on 

 2400 ; while the new Geography of Mr. 

 Morse, in general carefully executed (New 

 Si/totem of Modern Geography, 1822, p. 249), 

 has fixed on 20,000. 



Morse, I. c, p. 248. 

 the other Dutch. 



One part is French, 



Melish, 8500 ; Hassel, 14,000. Van den 

 Bosch (Vol. ii, p. 227) for 1805, total popu- 

 lation, 12,840. Dutch islands in general, 

 35,000, of whom 22,500 are slaves. 



In 1805, whites, 2223 ; freedmen, 1664; 

 slaves, 25,452. Total, 29,339. 



In 1815, whites, 726; freedmen, 239; 

 slaves, 4769. Total, 5734. 



In 1815, total, 2120, of whom, whites, 

 102; slaves, 1292. Mr. Hassel estimates 

 the total population of the Danish islands, in 

 1805, at 38,695 ; Mr. Colquhoun estimates 

 it in 1812, at 42,787, of whom 37,030 were 

 slaves. 



Morse, p. 249. 



