Oi' THE AilEElCAN STATES. 
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®«eat political divisions. 
ssessions of the Spanish Amei tcans . 
"le-Tico or New Spain 
Guatemala .... 
Cuba and Porto Jlico 
Columbia 
(iNew Grenada and Quito . 
Peru 
Chili 
ll ^ Ayres ..... 
ossessions of the Portuguese Ame^ 
Ul (Brazil) 
ossessions of the Anglo-Americans 
( United States) .... 
SURFACE 
n square leagues 
of 20 to an 
equinoctial 
degree. 
POPULA- 
TION 
(1823). 
S/li.HSO 
16,785,000 
75,830 
6,800,000 
1,600,000 
■1,430 
800,000 
33,700 
785,000 
58,2.50 
2.000,000 
41,420 
1,400,000 
14,240 
1,100,000 
120,770 
2,300,000 
256.990 
4,000,000 
174,300 
10,220,000 
F ’ — — — 
’>1 statistical researches which have been made 
'’een Xi* • ‘^“uijtries of Europe, important results have 
^ion by a comparison of the relative popula- 
*'®latioTi inland provinces. In Spain these 
^niterl P another as nine to five; in the 
cient r "°''inces of Venezuela, and, above all, in the an- 
^0 one of Caracas, they are as thirty-five 
^aorce" powerful soever may be the influence of'eoin- 
prosperity of states, and tlie intellectual 
Atnerip nations, it would be wrong to attribute in 
Europe, to that cause alone the 
cept J^st mentioned. In Spain and Italy, if we ex- 
“'^‘5 anV^^^® plains of Lombardy, the inland districts are 
**'®teorol . mountains or high table-lands : the 
*“^‘1 circumstances, on which the fertility of the 
as th same in the lands bordering on the 
■^rnerica central provinces. Colonization in 
slowly to generally begun on the coast, and advanced 
in y"^“™s the interior ; such is its progress in Brazil 
*** where the coast is unhealthy, 
as in Grenada, or sandy and exempt from 
VoE, population is concentrated on the 
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