TEKKITOlli’ AND I’OI'ULATION. 
13o 
These two Mexican Intendencias together, nfe nearly a third 
of the superficial extent of France, with a suitable popula- 
tion (in 182;5, nearly 2,800,000 souls), to prevent the 
towns of Mexico and Puebla from having a sensible influ- 
ence on the relative jiupulutiun. 
Northern part of the Province of Caracas (without the Llanos) . 208 
Tills table shews that those parts of America which we 
•low consider as the most populous, attain the relative 
population of the Itingdoin of Navarre, of Galicia, and the 
Asturias, which, next to the province of Guipuscoa, and the 
"ingdom of Valencia, reckon the greatest number of 
•idiahitants to the square league in all Spain ; the maximum 
of America is, however, below the relative population of the 
Jt’hole of France (1778 to the square league), and would, 
••( the latter country, he considered as a very thin population. 
taking a survey of Iho whole surface of America, wo 
flireet our attention to the Ca]utania-General of Venezuela, 
"0 find that the most populous of its subdivisions, the 
province of Caracas, considered as a whole, without except- 
••Jg the Llanos; has, as yet, only the relative population of 
Tennessee; and that this province, without the Llanos, 
•ttrnishes in its northern part, or more than 1800 square.-?, 
fke relative population of South Carolina. Those 1800 
Square leagues, the centre of agriculture, are twice as numc- 
•"ously peopled as Finland, hut still a third less than the 
^••''inee of Cuenca, which is the least populous of aU Spain, 
'' e cannot dwell on this result without a painful feeling, 
^uch is the state to which colonial politics and mal-adminis- 
ffition liave, during three centuries, reduced a country, 
^hieh, for natural wealth, majr vie with all that is most 
J' onderful on earth. For a region equally desert, we must 
either to the frozen regions of the north, or westward of 
-^leghani mountains towards the forests of Tennessee, 
'"hero the first clearings have only begun within the last 
year.s ! 
, -f he most cultivated part of the province of Caracas, the 
flsin of the lake of Valencia, commonly called Los Valles 
® Ai-agua, contained in 1810, neai-ly 2000 inhabitants to the 
h^are league. Supposing a relative population tlmee times 
and taking off from the whole surface of the Capitania- 
■»eneral nearly 24', 000 square leagues, as being occupied 
