Massachusets -
New Hampshire -
Vermont " " - -
Rhode Island -
Connecticut -
New York - -
New Jersey - -

Pensylvania, part east of the Alleghany mountains
Delaware - - - -

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II. Division of the South-east
Maryland - - -
District of Columbia -

Virginia, part situated to the east of the Alleghany

mountains - - o
North Carolina - - -
South Carolina - - -
Eastern Georgia - - -

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Pensylvania, part situated to the west of the Alleghany

mountains - - -

Virginia, part situated to the west of the Alleghany moun

Dispersed in the territory of Indiana, and in that of Mis

On the Population of Brazil.

“One enumeration alone affords positive
results; and it is that of 1797 and 1798. —
Before that time the bishops were obliged
to send to the king, as grand-master of the
order of Christ, and consequently spiritual head
of the Colonies, at fixed periods, a state of the
population of their dioceses. These states
were drawn up in the tribunal of the orders
called at Lisbon meza de consciencia. I was
enabled to see and examine the results of
the last state sent to king Joseph, about the
year 1776. This state only contained some-
what more than 1,500,000 souls: now the
bishops only included the souls of the commu-
nion, because, according to the established
custom, the curates kept a register of these
persons alone, on account o' the smallness of
the fees exigible. All the inhabitants below
ten years of age were consequently not in
these lists, and the Indians already reduced
or added to the missions, but not baptised,
were omitted in the same manner. With-
out fear of exaggeration, I believe I may
say that at that period (in 1776) the total
population was nearly 1,900,000 souls.
“The enumeration of 1798 was made with

“great care, but has never been published,

and I have received none of the particulars of it. I have it however from the best authorities, that it gave more than three millions, which is not very surprising, because in Brazil the institutions, and perhaps also the manners, are singularly favourable to population. The government has always very liberally given lands to colonists, and never sold any. The system of slavery adopted by the Portugueze has a tendency to multiply the negroes: no nation imports a greater number of female negroes, and is more attentive to the bringing up of the children. As to the Indians, it was formerly remarked by La Condamine, that the civilization of the Portugueze Indians was very superior to that of the Spanish Indians. Several years after the voyage of the French astronomer, King Joseph adopted an important political measure, assimilating in every thing the Indians to the Portugueze whites. This measure has not met with any opposition from the public opinion; the reduction of the remaining Indians has gone on rapidly and prosperously. The emigration from Europe has continued without any encouragement; and according to the Portugueze custom, people have gone to Brazil to settle, and not for the sake of making