Post Offices. The following table shows how much the number of post offices and post roads has increased in the United States, since 1793.

Remark. The length of post roads, that is, of the roads on which the mail is carried, has increased nearly ten-fold since 1793; and the number of post offices nearly twenty-fold. This is a great improvement,/because it facilitates correspondence and intercourse between different parts of the country, and promotes

Commerce.

Questions. 1. How much did the length of post roads increase between 1793 and 1817 ? 2. How much the number of post offices ? 3. Why is the increase of post offices, and the length of post roads an improvement ?

PUBLIC DEBT. The following statement shows the amount of the debt of the United States at different periods.

Remarks. The original debt of $75,463,467, was Contracted in support of the war of Independence,which lasted from 1775 to 1788. During the long peace between 1783 and 1812 the country was prosperous, and the debt was gradually reduced to less than one half of the original amount. The war of 1812-'13 and '14 increased it again more than three-fold; but the present debt is much more moderate, compared with the popu lation and resources of the country, than the debt in 1791,

Questions. 1. What was the amount of the debt of the United States in 1791 ? 2. How was this debt contracted? 3. How much was the debt reduced in 1812! 4. How much was it increased by the war with Great Britain in 1812? 5. Is the present debt as burdensome as the debt in 1791 ?

REVENUE, MANUFACTURES, AND MILITIA. The first column of the following table shows the amount of revenue received from each state in 1815; the second the estimated value of Manufactures for 1810; and the third, the number of militia in 1818.

Remarks. The revenue arises from duties paid on foreign goods, imported into the United States, and the duties are paid in those ports where the goods are first landed. Tennessee, Kentucky, &e. pay no revenue, because they are interior states, and have no ports. New York pays a great revenue, because the foreign goods consumed in New York, half of New Jersey, and the western part of New England, are first landed in the city of New York, and pay duties there. The goods consumed in the western states, pay duties in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, &c.

Questions. 1. From what state does the general government derive most revenue? 2. Why does New York pay so much more than other states? 3. Why is there no revenue from the western states ? 4. Where do the goods consumed in the western states pay duties ? 5. Which state is the first in the value of its manufae. tures ? 6. Which next? 7. Which are the greatest manufacturing states, the Atlantic or western states? 8. Which are the greatest, the eastern and middle states, or the southern ?

II OF AMERICA.

EXTENT AND POPULATION. The following table shows the extent and population of the principal countries in America.

Remark. The extent and population of most of the countries in America has never been ascertained with much accuracy, and for this reason the statements are måde in round numbers.

Questions. 1. Which country in America contains the greatest population? 2. Which next? 3. What is the population of Peru? 4. Of Newfoundland ? 5. Of Brazil ? 6. Which country contains the greatest Dumber of square miles ? 7. Which next? 8. Which next? 9. How many square miles in the United States? 10. What is the chief town in Canada ? 11. In Nova Scotia? 12. In the West Indies? 13. In Venezuela?

PRINCIPAL TOWNS. The following table shows the principal cities in the order of their population.

Questions. 1. Which are the five largest cities in America? 2. What is the population of Mexico? 3. of New York? 4. of Quebec ? 5. of Montreal? 6. of Baltimore? 7. of Quito? 8. of Philadelphia ? &c. &e.

The first column in the

HISTORY OF SETTLEMENTS. following table exhibits the principal countries in America, arranged according to the order of time, in which the first permanent settlements were made by Europeans; the second shows when they were settled; and the third, by what nation.

Remarks. The Spaniards began to settle in America in less than 30 years after its discovery; the English, not till 70 years later than the Spaniards. The eastern and southern sections of the United States were first settled by the English; the middle states, by other

nations.

Questions. 1. In what two countries of America did the Europeans first settle? 2. What European nation made the first settlement in America? 3. In what part of America did the English first settle? 4. How long after the discovery of America before the first settlement was made? 5. How long before the first English* settlement was made? 6. By what nations were the middle states first settled? 7. What nation first settled Canada Carolina? Maryland? New York? Pennsylvania?