300 MEXICO. 
The Baron Humboldt estimates it to have been in the year 1803. 
5,837,100; and Mr. Poinsett, in 1824, (from the best data of the period,? 
6,500,000. 
In 1830, Mr. Burkhardt, an accurate German traveller, rates the sev- 
eral classes of Mexicans thus : 
Indians, - - 4,500,000 
Whites, 1,000,000 
Negroes, ... 6,000 
Mestizos, and other castes, - 2,490,000 
Total, 7,996,000 
Another estimate in 1839, reduces the sum to 7,065,000, and gives 
eight inhabitants to the square mile ; but the most complete, and, probably, 
the most accurate of the recent calculations, is the one which was made 
by the Government itself, (without special enumeration,) and served as 
a basis for the call of a Congress to form a new Constitution, under the 
plan of Tacubaya in 1842. 
Departments. Population 
Mexico 1,389,520 
Jalisco, 679,311 
Puebla, 661,902 
Yucatan, 580,948 
Guanajuato, ......... 512,606 
Oajaca, 500,278 
Michoacan, 497,906 
San Luis Potosi, 321,840 
Zacatecas, - - - - . . • .. 273,575 
Vera Cruz, 254,380 
Durango, . . .' 162,618 
Chihuahua, 147,600 
Sinaloa, 147,000 
Chiapas 141,206 
Souora, 124,000 
Queretazo, 120,560 
NuevoL6on, 101,108 
Tamaulipas, 100,068 
Coahuila, - - 75,340 
Aguas Calientes, - . - • . - . 69,698 
Tabasco, 63,580 
Nuevo Mexico, - - 57,026 
Californiae, • - . 33,439 
Total in 1842, .... 7,015,509 
Since the year 1830, the population of the Republic has been dread- 
fully ravaged by smallpox — measles and cholera. In the Capital alone, 
it is estimated that about 5000 died of the first named of these diseases, 
2000 of the second, and from 15,000 to 20,000, of the third. The mor- 
tality must have been in a corresponding ratio throughout the territory. 
