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7,847 females; Aborigines, 2,134 males, 2,005 females; 
Mixed -aces 2,058 males, 1,824 females, and 16 male and 
21 female of other races not distinguished. 
With regard to the North West Territory, at the 1881 
Census there were no returns, but now the population is 
given as 942. 
The population is distributed in the following manner 
according to the Census: 19*1 per cent live in George- 
town; 43 '3 live in the County of Demerary excluding 
Georgetown — »f the town and county be taken together 
62*5 per cent live in this division of the colony. Esse- 
quebo claims 19*1 per cent and Berbice 18*3 of which 3*1 
per cent, live in New Amsterdam. Put in a more general 
way it may be stated that 22*2 per cent of the people 
live in towns ; 32*5 on the various estates of the colony; 
and 45*1 in the villages. The villages are all compara- 
tively small and become smaller in proportion to their 
distance from Georgetown. Those on the East Coast of 
Demerara near Georgetown are the most thickly popu- 
lated; and of these Plaisance is the largest with 4,705 
inhabitants. The villages in Essequebo are small, the 
largest being Queenstown with 2,096 persons and those 
in Berbice are smaller still. Cumberland is the largest 
but has only 1,250 inhabitants. The density of the popu- 
lation in the usual sense is not great ; but a mere state- 
ment of this fa6l gives rise to misapprehension for there 
are such large trails of land uninhabited, and there is no 
exacl: measurement of the inhabited area. The density 
for Georgetown is given by Mr. DALTON as 53*17 persons 
per acre, and of New Amsterdam as only 28*08. But 
this even does not give any idea of the enormous amount 
of over crowding that exists at night in the houses of 
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