Vote I. (Vol. IV. p. 246.) M. Playfair (Statistical Breviary, p. 5S.) estimates the total population of the English possessions of Hindostan in 1801, at only 23 millions of inhabitants. He allows for the three provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Benares, 18,500,000. According to the information received at the Presidency of Calcutta from the collectors of tributes, it was believed that the population of Bengal and Bahar in 1789 did not exceed 22 millions. Sir William Jones in the preface to his translation of Al Sirajiyah, lays down 24 millions; and the authors of the Observations on the agriculture and commerce of Hindostan", printed at Calcutta in 1800, fix the population of Bengal, Bahar, and Benares at 27 millions. They even affirm that this estimate, far from being exaggerated, is, on the contrary, perhaps three or four millions too low. From these data it appears that the English possessions of the Continent of Asia have 32,300,000 inhabitants, which, supposing a territorial extent of 48,299 square leagues, gives 678 individuals to the square league. * Remarks on the Husbandry and internal Commerce of Bengal, (Calcutta, 1801, and reprinted in London,) chap. ii. SUPPLEMENT. On the Territorial Ertent and Population of Spanish America. I HAVE brought together in the following Table all the information which I have been able hitherto to acquire * respecting the territorial extent, population, produce of gold and silver mines, and value of imports from the old Continent into the Spanish Colonies of America. M. Oltmanns was kind enough to take the charge of the calculations of the extent of the surfaces in square leagues. * See vol. i. p.207 to 211. and vol. iii. p. 394, and vol. iv, p. 127. SPANISH AMERICA, 1800. Value of Goods of 13,200,000 Extent in sq. No of Inha- Ann. Produce of the old Continent 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 inhabitants. - Inhabitants. In the Spanish Colonies of the Continent of America - - 13,500,000 In the Portuguese Colonies - - 8,800,000 In the West India Islands - - 1,900,000 In the United States * - 6,000,000 In English Canada - - - 450,000 Total, not including Russian America and the Independent Indians, 25,650,000 On the Territorial Eatent 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 48°, 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 divi“sions, we shall prolong a line drawn in the |