336 Mr Harvey on the Increase of the Population 
sition, that it is the result of some law. The following Table, 
however, will more completely show the states and territories 
which conform to this law, and those which deviate from it. 
The females present the greatest irregularities. 
States and Territories in which the Maximum Increments 
of Males are found. j 
16, and under 26. 
26, and under 45. 
45, and upwards. 
Connecticut. 
Massachusets. 
Maine. 
New York. 
Rhode Island. 
New Hampshire. 
New Jersey. 
Vermont. 
Pennsylvania. 
Delaware. 
Ohio. 
North Carolina, 
Indiana, 
South Carolina, 
Maryland. 
Georgia. 
Virginia. 
Tennessee. 
Louisiana. 
Kentucky. 
Alabama. 
Missisippi, 
Illinois. 
Michigan. 
Columbia. 
States and Territories 
in which the Maximum Increments of Females 
are found. 
Under 10. 
10, and un- 
der 16. 
16, and under 
26. 
26, and under 
45. 
45, and up- 
wards. 
Alabama. 
Illinois. 
New York. 
New Jersey. 
Pennsylvania. 
Virginia. 
Massachusets. 
Rhode Island. 
Connecticut. 
Maine. 
New Hampshire. 
Vermont. 
Delaware. 
Ohio. 
Indiana. 
Maryland. 
North Carolina. 
South Carolina. 
Georgia. 
Louisiana. 
Tennessee. 
Kentucky. 
Missisippi. 
Michigan. 
Columbia. 
The preceding survey has afforded the most ample grounds 
for presuming, that the increase of the American population 
has not proceeded from procreation alone. To indulge such a 
supposition, indeed, would be to attribute to the operations of 
nature a series of irregularities of the most improbable kind. 
If we select, by way of example, the greatest and least rates of 
