Report of the Superintendent of the Census for December 1, 1852: To which is Appended the Report for December 1, 1851 |
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Page 72 - Potatoe, which was used in England, as a delicacy, long before the introduction of our Potatoes ; it was imported in considerable quantities from Spain, and the Canaries, and was supposed to possess the power of restoring decayed vigour.
Page 150 - From calculations made on the statistics returned, and estimated circulations, where they have been omitted, it appears that the aggregate circulation of these...
Page 123 - ... on which no road or embankment exists. The most difficult and objectionable line was selected to test the practicability of carrying the conductors through swampy ground, and it has been perfectly successful. The...
Page 156 - ... the science which, in preference to any other, ought to be held in reverence. No science (he continues) can furnish to any mind capable of receiving useful information, so much real entertainment ; none can yield such important hints for the improvement of agriculture, for the extension of our commercial industry, for regulating the conduct of individuals, or for extending the prosperity of the State ; none can tend so much to promote the general happiness of the species.
Page 122 - Thence, a water line of 200 to 300 miles conducts the telegraph to Iceland ; from the western coast of Iceland, another submarine line conveys it to Kioge Bay, on the eastern coast of Greenland ; it then crosses Greenland to Juliana's Hope, on the -western coast of that Continent, in...
Page 139 - June, would have been 4,657,239 ; so that, in comparison with the whites, they have lost, in this period, 1,035,340. This disparity is much more than accounted for by European emigration to the United States. Dr. Chickering, in an essay upon emigration, published at Boston in 1848 — distinguished for great elaborateness of research — estimates the gain of the white population, from this source, at 3,922,152. No reliable record was kept of the number of...
Page 80 - It was cultivated to a considerable extent in St. Domingo, in 1506, where it succeeded better than in any of the other islands. In 1518, there were twenty-eight plantations in that colony, established by the Spaniards, where an abundance of sugar was made, which, for a long period, formed the principal part of the European supplies. Barbadoes, the oldest English settlement in the West Indies, began to export sugar in 1646 : and in the year 1676, the trade of that island required four hundred vessels,...
Page 139 - These estimates make, for the thirty years preceding 1820, 234,000. If we reckon the increase of these emigrants at the average rate of the whole body of white population during these three decades, they and their descendants, in 1820, would amount to about 360,000. From 1820 to 1830, there arrived, according to the returns of the Customhouses, 135,986 foreign passengers, and from 1830 to 1840, 579,370, making for the 20 years 715,356.
Page 139 - No reliable record was kept of the number of immigrants into the United States until 1820, when, by the law of March, 1819, the collectors were required to make quarterly returns of foreign passengers arriving in their districts. For the first ten years, the returns under the law afford materials for only an approximation to a true state of the facts involved in this inquiry. Dr. Chickering assumes...
Page 144 - Territories in which public lands are situated, are doubtless correct, being taken from the records of the Land Office ; but, as to those attributed to the older States, the same means of verifying their accuracy, or the want of it, do not exist. But care has been taken to consult the best local authorities for ascertaining the extent of surface in those States; and as the figures adopted are found to agree with, or differ but slightly from those assumed to be correct at the General Land Office,...