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The habit of living in countries where the whites are so 

 numerous as in the United States, has had a singular influ- 

 ence on the ideas which have been formed of the prepon- 

 derance of different races in various parts of the New Con- 

 tinent. The number of negroes and of mixed race, which 

 amount together, in my tables, to more than 12,861,000, 

 or to 37 per cent., has been arbitrarily diminished - r while 

 the white population does not exceed 131 millions, or 33 per 

 cent. Mr. Morse admitted for the whole of America, in 1822, 

 50- 100th whites, 33-100th Indians, 11 -100th negroes, and 

 5-100ths of mixed race. MM. Carry and Lea suppose a 

 population of 2,050,000 in the archipelago of the West 

 Indies, of which 450,000 whites, and 1,600,000 blacks and 

 mulattoes ; this indicates 22 per cent, of whites. We have 

 just seen that the statement is still a little more unfavour- 

 able, and that on the total population of the West Indies, 

 2,843,000, there are 17 per cent, of whites, and 83 per cent, 

 of men of colour, slaves and free j that is, that the whites 

 are to the men of colour ir I ; 5. 



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