Tuiiiiirojir A.>'D i’oi'i'T.Ai’ioy. 
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the Mississippi, as well as in the interior of Spanisli 
Guiana, there are not two inhabitants to the square league 
®'^er mucjj larger extents of territory than Switzerland or 
elgium. The state of these countries is like that of the 
•Russian Empire, where the relative population of some of 
^siatie governments (Irkutsk ana Tobolsk), is to that 
* rp, cultivated European districts, as 1 to 300. 
enormous diftcrence existing, in countries newly 
P between the extent of territory and the number 
w^'^eabitants, renders these partial estimates necessary. 
. , • ^ learn that New Spain and the United States, taking 
eir entire extent at 75,000 and 174,000 square sea-leagues, 
respeetively, 90 and 58 souls to each league, we no more 
otain a correct idea of that distribution of the population 
? ■which the political power of nations depends, than we 
uould of the climate of a country, that is to say, of the distri- 
Mion of the heat in the different seasons, by the mere know- 
^®dge of the mean tomperariire of the whole year. II 
United States all their possession.s 
he 19 Mississippi, their relative population would 
_ , h instead ot 58 to the square league ; consequently 
latt Sreater than that of New Spain. Taking from the 
of Tw ‘Country the Provincias internas (north and north-east 
to +n 'we should find 190, instead of 90 souls 
the square league. 
Cel Provinces of Caracas, Maraeaybo, Cumana, and Bar- 
inn°f maritime provinces of the north, are the 
but -P^Ptt^^tis of the old Capitania-G-eneral of Caracas ; 
> in comparing this relative population with that of 
Pu\i ivhere the two intendencias of Mexico and 
su .*iloiie contain, on an extent scarcely equal to the 
(jjP^tficies of the province of Caracas, a greater population 
sorn^ the whole republic of Columbia, wo see that 
Qg Mexican intendencias, which, with respect to the con- 
I’hnk^y ^ of’ their culture, occupy but the seventh or eighth 
to 5 f'^^ioatecas and Guadalajara), contain more inhabitants 
hver ^ league than the province of Caracas. The 
Can^^^ of’ the relative population of Cumana, Barcelona, 
leao. Maraeaybo, is fifty-six and, as 6200 square 
ajg®H®®>.that is, one half of the extent of these four provinces 
«fuost desert Llanos, we find, in reckoning the superficies 
