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Art. XIV. — Remarks on the Increase of the Population of the 
United States and Territories of North America, with Original 
Tables , deduced from the American Population Returns, to 
illustrate the various Rates of Increase, in the White Population 
and Skives, and also the comparative degrees in which Agri- 
culture, Commerce, and Manufactures prevail . By George 
Harvey, Esq. M. G. S., M. A. S., &c. (Continued from p. 55.) 
THE Table which concluded the first portion of my Essay, 
in the last Number of this Journal, presents results of a more 
striking and remarkable nature, than any which have been drawn 
from the tables formed to illustrate the other divisions of the 
survey of the American population *. Since 1810, Indiana has 
added its immense increments to the Middle States, surpas- 
sing even the rapid rates of increase which distinguished Ohio 
in the former decade. In the Southern States, also, we find the 
returns for Louisiana presenting results scarcely less remarkable. 
And in the Territorial Governments, we have the fertile districts 
of Alabama, Illinois, and Michigan, each contributing their 
mighty increments, to swell and augment the . tide of popula- 
tion. 
Among the Northern States, it is curious to trace the growth 
of the district of Maine, when contrasted with that of Vermont 
In the enumeration for 1790 to 1800, the increments of the 
former were decidedly inferior to those of the latter ; and in the 
period from 1800 to 1810, the comparative rates of increase 
were somewhat of an uncertain kind, the ascendancy being 
found for some of the ages in one state, and sometimes in the 
* The reader is requested to correct the following typographical errors in the 
Tables belonging to the former part of this essay : — To place the sign minus before 
the number belonging to the free white males under 16 in Rhode Island, page 50. ; 
also in the state of Connecticut, and in the class of males under 10, in p. 52. to sub- 
stitute — 0.4 for 50.4 ; and in the same page, to place the sign minus before the num- 
ber belonging to the free white females of 45 and upwards. Also in the Table, 
p. 55., to introduce the same sign in the following pi aces,, viz, before the numbers for 
the males and females in the class under 10, in the states of Connecticut and Ver- 
mont ; before the numbers belonging to the first, second, and fourth classes of 
males, and the first and second classes of females, in the state of Delaware ; and, 
lastly, in the second class of males belonging to Illinois, to alter 37.3 into 347.3. 
