102,280 606 | 57 130 58 London, 1,350,000 Protest., Episcopalian, 62,306,214 777,476,892 St. Petersburgh [(a) [320,000? Pres., Catholic Greek, Catholic, Luth., 16,000,000 52,000,000 1,039,000 Mahometan 165 ships, 117 frigates, 324 inferior. 1 50 do. 30 do. 50 do. **Before the Battle of Navarino. (a) This is an estimated increase upon the Returns of 1821. Rio de Janeiro, Catholic 2,500,000 9,320,000 30,000 101 105 Washington, 15,000 Congregational, Pres., 5,539,600 15,836,000 [(a) Ep., Lu., Cath., Meth. Mexico, 180,000 Catholic New Guatem.,40,000 Catholic 3,500 Bogotá, 30,000 Catholic Catholic . Catholic 1,712,000 9,160,000 1,200,000 5,899,520 440,000 640,000 600,000 6,440,000 600,000 5,360,000 10,000 16 8,000 1,200,000 6,000,000 45,000 200,000. 5,000 6662 112 113 114 115 116 117 (a) Washington is the seat of Government in the United States, and is therefore the nominal Capital. The Capitals of several of the individual States are superior in population and importance. XXII. TOTAL POPULATION OF TH A SUMMARY of the preceding table give sults for the surface of the habitable glob square miles), and the amount of population XXIII. INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH, DIV TO THEIR RELIGIOUS BEL The two following estimates are accord phers, Malte-Brun and Hassel. THE accounts of the population of Russia to be relied upon, comprehend only a part part) of the inhabitants of that extended e of the Orthodox Greek Church publish ea of Marriages, Births, and Deaths in the ye following it a comparison of those lists for 1826-at which former year the empire had extended limits : It is difficult to account for the lesser increase in 1826 than in 1820, unless it be attributed to the great difference in fertility between the respective years. The years 1819 and 1820 were highly productive in the east of Europe-that of 1825 rather less so and that of 1826 was, in all the sandy districts, from the great drought that prevailed, very deficient. These years, however, may be taken as the standard of annual increase: thus the excess of births over deaths consists of 551,552 souls; this comprehends only the increase in the greater religious sect over whom the Synod presides. When the whole population in 1806 amounted to 41,252,000 persons, the excess of births over deaths, as published by the Synod, was 542,701. Since that year, countries have been added to the empire whose inhabitants did not profess the Orthodox Greek Religion, and are therefore not noticed in the annual reports of the Synod. Amongst these may be classed Finland, whose inhabitants are Lutherans; Bialystock, where they are either Catholics, or Heterodox Greeks; Caucasus provinces, where the majority are Mahometans and Jews; and Poland, where they are mostly Catholics and Jews:-the proportion which those of the dissident sects bear to the Orthodox Church, is estimated as 2 to 7. At this ratio, the annual increase of the population of Russia must be at the rate of 697,758 persons, exclusive of the inhabitants of the Asiatic provinces of Russia, who bear to those in the European provinces the proportion of 2 to 11. Thus, for the annual increase of the whole empire of 697,758 persons, must be subtracted two-elevenths, or 98,673, leaving, as yearly augmentation, by the excess of births over deaths in European Russia, 598,085. Thus, from 1815 to the present time, averaging 600,000 for twelve years (being a few months short of the real time), we may, without fear of any material error, assume the population of European Russia to have increased about seven millions. In Russia, the increase seems to depend less on the increased number of births than on the more extended length of life. In the returns of the Synod, the deaths of persons above a hundred years old appear to have been, in the year |