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aad the scanty population of the plains, 102 inhabitants to the 
$(piare league. An analogous modification gives the pro- 
vince of Caracas alone a relative population of 208, that 
is, only one-seventh less than that of the Atlantic States of 
Worth America. 
As in political economy, numerical statements become 
instructive only by a comparison with analogous facts, I 
liave carefully examined what, in the present state of the 
two continents, might bo considered as a small relative 
population in Eui’ope, and a veiy gi’eat relative population in 
.America. I have, however’, chosen examples only from among 
the provinces which have a continued surface of more than 
(iOO square leagues, in order to exclude the accidental accu- 
mulations of population wliich occur around great cities; 
for instance, on the coast of Brazil, in the valley of Mexico, 
on tlie table-lands of Santa I'e de Bogota and Cuzco ; or 
finally, in (ho smaller West India Islands (Barbadoes, 
Afartinique, and St, Thomas), of which the relative jiopula- 
tion is from 3000 to 4700 inhabitants to the square league, 
and consequently equal to the most fertile parts of Holland, 
Trance, and J joinbardy. 
Minimum of Europe. 
The four least populous Governments of European Russia: sq. league 
Archangel .... .... 10 
Olonez ......... 42 
Wologda and Astracan . 52 
Finland 100 
The least populous Province of Spain, that of Cuenca .311 
The Duchy of Luneburg (on account of the heaths) . . 550 
The least populous Department of Continental France (Hautes 
Alps) 7.58 
Departments of France thinly peopled (the Crense, the Var, and 
the Aude) 1300 
Maximum of America. 
The central part of the Intendencias of Me.xico and Puebla, 
above 1300 
In the United States, Massacliussets, but having only 522 square 
leagues of surface 900 
Massacliussets, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, together . 840 
Tlie whole Intendencia of Puebla ...... 540 
The whole Intendencia of Mexico ..... 400 
