I hope to be able at a future period to rectify this table, by procuring more accurate information respecting the population of the kingdom of Buenos Ayres, Guatimala, and Chili. According to Azara, the government of Paraguay contains 97,500 souls, and that of Plata 170,900. I believe I have estimated above, (chap. xiv. p. 246.) the population of Spanish America too high by a tenth. It has frequently been asked: What is the number of inhabitants in the whole of the New Continent? I shall examine this problem in the historical account of my Travels in America; it is sufficient to observe in this place, that the whole population does not probably exceed twenty-eight or twenty-nine millions of in habitants. Inhabitants. In the Spanish Colonies of the Total, not including Russian America and the Independent Indians, 25,650,000 On the Territorial Ertent and Population of the United States, before the acquisition of Louisiana. I have given in the third book (chap. viii. vol. i. p. 277.) part of the data on which the result obtained by us for the United States, in the table of the territorial extent and population of the great political associations, is founded. The reader will find very valuable information, in the following account drawn up by M. Gallatin, treasurer of the United States, which I have translated from the manuscript of the author. “A chain of mountains extends from the “ sources of the Apalachicola, or the 3° of “ north latitude, to the sources of the Genesee, “ and the Seneca, situated under the parallel “ of 43°, and forms points of separation be“tween the eastern and western waters, and “ divides the United States in two unequal “ parts. This chain of mountains is formed “of a great number of small chains parallel “ to one another, and to the Atlantic coast; “ and it is interrupted in several places by “ the force and impetuosity of the torrents. “Considering the territory of the United “States according to its great natural divisions, we shall prolong a line drawn in the “ direction of the Alleghany mountains, on “ the north, to the west of the fall of Nia gara; and on the south, between the streams of the Apalachicola, and the rivers which flow into the Atlantic ocean. We shall in the following table give the name of eastern division, to the whole extent of country of which the waters mingle with the Atlantic, with lake Ontario, and the river Saint Lawrence. What we shall call the western division, will comprehend the rivers which flow into the lakes above the fall of the Niagara, into the Mississipi, and the gulph of Mexico. I suppose the eastern division to contain 320,000 English square miles; and that the western division is greater, and may be estimated at 580,000 square miles. “But considering the present state of the population of the United States, there is yet another more natural division. We may distinguish the territory possessed by the whites, and purchased from the Indians, from that which is still possessed by the Indians, in which they will permit no whites to settle. The territory of the Indians appears to contain nearly the same surface with that of the whites; and I compute them at 450,000 square miles each. A small part of the Indian lands, containing only 10,000 square miles, is included in the
Exports of the United States, from 1st October; 1805, to 30th September, 1806. States. Dollars. New Hampshire - * 795,263 Vermont - - - 193,775 Massachusets s - || 21,199,243 Rhode Island - - 2,091,835 Connecticut - . - 1,715,828 New York - - - || 21,762,845 New Jersey - - 33,867 Pensylvania - - 17,574,702 Delaware - - 500,106 Maryland - - - 14,580,905 District of Columbia : - - 1,246,146 | Virginia - - - 5,055,396 North Carolina - - 789,682 South Carolina - - 9,743,750 Georgia - - - || 82,764 Territories noterected into States 4,170,901 Sum total - - - 101,537,008 In the course of the same year, the exports of the United States for the different parts of Great Britain were 1,600,000 pounds sterling, while the imports from England into the United States amounted to 6,800,000 pounds sterling. The commerce of the English nation with the United States, amounted then to a seventh of the value of the whole exports of Great Britain, which are valued by Mr. Medford at 51 millions of pounds sterling. Note H. (Vol. IV. p. 128.) The following table exhibits the value of the exports from the Spanish Colonies of America for the port of Cadiz, from the period of the peace of Amiens, tothesist December 1802. Value in double Denomination of goods. Quantities. piastres—price at Cadiz. . Cotton - - 54,112 quint. 1,535,040 Indigo - - 3,892,675 lib. 9,931,687 Sugar - - - 1,029,613 arrob, 4,375,855 Vanilla - - || 1 1,947,000 pieces 1,075,230 Cocoa of Caracas - 33,075 faneg. 1,984,500 Ditto of Guayaquil - 21,532 ditto. 861,280 Coffee - - 1,799,800 lib. 478,072 Campeachy wood - - - 90,380 Quinquina - 893,100 lib. 1,786,200 Copper - - 17,877 quint. 375,417 Hides - - I' 339,382 ditto. 1,527,219 - - Grana - 24,514 arrob. 2,528,007 Cochineal{ Granilla 1,392 ditto. 57,447 Pimento of Tabasco 99,875 lib. 16,646 Tallow - - 3,269 quint. 42,484 || Jalap - - 7,507 arrob. 375,350 Yellow wood (mora- lete) - - 3,777 quint. 7,554 Sarsaparilla - I 364 ditto. 37,856 Brazil wood (Brasilete) - - 1,059 ditto. 10,590 Total of produce - - - - 27,096,814 Gold and silver - - - - 54,742,033 Total of the exports of the go - - - sisassy for Cadiz - |