48 Mr Harvey on the Increase of the Population 
ritories, two only can be found, namely, Massachusets and 
Connecticut, in which the increments, during the three periods 
embraced by the Table, present any thing like an uniformity in 
their rates of increase. It is curious to compare the increments 
of New York with those of Virginia. In 1790, the latter State 
possessed a greater population than any other American State ; 
but the large increments received by the population of New 
York, accelerated its population in a more rapid degree than 
that of Virginia ; so that in 1820, the province of New York 
possessed the maximum population. Hence, in the short space 
of thirty years, the population of New York was increased from 
340,120 to 1,372,812 ; being more than quadrupled in that 
time. Virginia, during the same interval, only changed its po- 
pulation from 747,100 to 1,065,360; so that while the former 
State increased its inhabitants in the ratio of 8 to 2, the latter 
only .augmented it in the ratio of 3 to 2 : a difference, I should 
apprehend, not to be accounted for from the ordinary laws of 
human procreation. Pennsylvania increased its population in 
the same time, in about the ratio of 5 to 2. Louisiana, pre- 
sents the most remarkable increase in the whole series. The in- 
crement in ten years was 635.9 per cent . ; so that here is an ex- 
ample of a population being more than sextupled in the short 
space of ten years. The larger class of increments, it will be 
perceived, form no inconsiderable portion of the Table. In 
the whole Table there will be found eleven increments below 10 
per cent . ; seventeen increments between 10 and 20 per cent . ; 
five between 20 and 30 per cent . ; nine between 30 and 40 ; 
one between 40 and 50 ; three between 50 and 60 ; three also 
between 60 and 70 ; one between 70 and 80 ; four between 80 
and 90; one between 90 and 100; two between 100 and 
200 ; three between 300 and 400 ; and three between 400 
and 700. Rhode Island, in the period from 1790 to 1800, 
and Delaware in that from 1810 to 1820, are the only in- 
stances of a close approximation of the population to a station- 
ary state. 
Having made these few brief observations on the increments 
which the different States have received, since the first authen- 
tic census of the American people in 1790 ; it may be useful, in 
