of the United States and Territories of North America. 83? 
increase of the males, for the four great divisions of the states 
and territories, during the period last reviewed, as in the fol- 
lowing Table, 
State or 
Territory. 
Under 
10. 
10, and 
under 
16. 
16, and 
under 
26. 
26, and 
under 
45. 
’45, and 
upwards. 
Northern I 
States, 1 
f Maximum, 
[ Minimum, 
Maine, 
Connecticut, 
19.2 
— 2.6 
14.7 
0.9 
39.8 
8.2 
25.6 
8.2 
44.3 
6.5 
Middle J 
States, | 
f Maximum, 
[ Minimum, 
Indiana, 
Delaware, 
501.8 
— 6.2 
495.9 
— 0.1 
531.7 
7.1 
507.6 
— 4.6 
528.1 
13.4 
Southern J 
States, j 
f Maximum, 
[ Minimum, 
Louisiana, 
Virginia, 
243.7 
6.3 
250.2 
6.6 
457.8 
14.4 
443,1 
10.1 
398.7 
8.3 
Territo- I 
ries. j 
j Maximum, 
[ Minimum, 
Illinois, 
Columbia, 
365.8 
32.2 
347.3 
32.1 
388.6 
42.8 
329.8 
37.3 
375.0 
49.1 
we must immediately admit the propriety of considering a very 
large proportion of the increase as arising from immigration. 
And although, in the present imperfect state of our statistical 
knowledge, it may be impossible to fix, with any thing like pre- 
cision, the several degrees in which procreation and immigration 
have prevailed, so as to produce results so singularly diversified 
as those which have been the object of the preceding pages to 
survey, there can be no doubt but that, in many of the states, 
the latter cause must have been decidedly the most powerful in 
producing them. On another occasion, an opportunity may be 
afforded for discussing these important relations; but, in the 
mean time, it may be remarked, that it does not appear, from 
the evidence with which we are at present furnished, that the 
laws which influence procreation in the New World are mate- 
rially different from those which prevail in the Old. Subse- 
quent inquiries, and more authentic documents than we at pre- 
sent possess, may throw a new light on the subject, and dimi- 
nish the impression which has been made on the minds of many 
enlightened men, that the rapidity with which the American po- 
pulation has increased, is more to be attributed to immigration 
than to any other cause. Still the inquiry must be approached 
with caution, and, in the absence of so many necessary data, even 
speculation itself may be useless. If we consider, however, the 
present condition of Europe, and the causes which contribute to 
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