4$ Mr Harvey on ilhe Increase of the Population ■ 
with each other ; and that a liberal and comprehensive policy 
may arise, embracing, in one grand and magnificent system, all 
the civilised nations of the earth. 
From the statements of Dr Franklin and Mr Pitkin, and the 
authorised population returns, the following rates of increase 
have been computed : 
" 1731 to 
1749, 
Per Cent , 
4.6 
Increase of the whole 
■< 
1749 to 
1790, 
275.5 
1790 to 
1800, 
35.1 
Population from 
1800 to 
1810, 
36.1 
^ 1810 to 
1820, 
32.9 
The first and second rates of increase must be regarded as pure- 
ly hypothetical ; and I should consider, that either Dr Franklin 
or Mr Pitkin must have made a considerable error in the state- 
ment of the population. The rates of increase are so very dis- 
cordant, that they cannot be by any means reconciled with each 
other. In eighteen years, for instance, the increment was only 
4.6 per cent., whereas in forty-one years, it amounted to £7 5.5 
per cent. The three last increments, therefore, are the only ones 
which can be relied on. 
The following Table contains the results of the various rates 
of increase which the different states and territories have re- 
ceived since the census of 1790, and was computed from the re- 
turns of population before quoted. The first column embraces 
the names of the states and territories, and the succeeding co- 
lumns the several rates of increase which these provinces have un- 
dergone, during the periods indicated at the head of the Table. 
States and Territories. 
0 
Increase per 
cent . from 
1790 to 1800. 
Increase per 
cent . from 
1800 to 1810. 
Increase per 
cent, from 
1810 to 1820. 
" Maine, 
57.2 
50.7 
30.4 
New Hampshire, 
29.6 
16.6 
13.9 
Massachusets, 
11.6 
11.6 
10.9 
Rhode Island, 
0.4 
11.3 
7.9 
Connecticut, . . 
5.5 
4.4 
5.1 
^Vermont, 
80.6 
41.1 
8.2 
"New York, 
72.3 
63.6 
32.7 
New Jersey, 
14.7 
16.3 
13.0 
Pennsylvania, 
38.7 
34.4 
29.5 
Delaware, 
8.8 
13.1 
0.1 
Ohio, 
27.1 
408.7 
151.9 
..Indiana, 
— 
334.7 
500.2 
