Negroes.
---- Marigalante 15 12 5,400 Ditto.
---- Tobago 32 9 3,400 Ditto.
---- Defiada 12 6 1,500 Ditto.
---- Granada 30 15 13,500 English, and Pagan
Negroes.
---- St. Lucia 23 12 5,000 Ditto, and Native Pagan
Caribbs.
Whites. Negroes.
---- St. Eustatia 6 4 5,000 15,000 Dutch, English, &c.
---- St.Christopher 20 7 6,000 36,000 English.
---- Nevis 6 4 5,000 10,000 Ditto.
---- Antigua 20 4 7,000 30,000 Ditto.
---- Montserrat 6 4 5,000 10,000 Ditto.
---- Martinico 6 4 20,000 50,000 French.
---- St. Vincent's 60 4 8,000 5,000 The 8,000 are
Native Caribbs.
---- Barbadoes 24 4 30,000 100,000 English.
---- Dominica 28 4 40,000 Ditto, 2,000 of them
Native Caribbs.
---- St. Thomas 15 in compass. 8,000 Danish Protestants.
This, as nearly as I can obtain information, is the state of the
world; though in many countries, as Turkey, Arabia, Great Tartary,
Africa, and America, except the United States, and most of the Asiatic
Islands, we have no accounts of the number of inhabitants, that can be
relied on. I have therefore only calculated the extent, and counted a
certain number on an average upon a square mile; in some countries
more, and in others less, according as circumstances determine. A few
general remarks upon it will conclude this section.
FIRST, the inhabitants of the world according to this calculation,
amount to about seven hundred and thirty-one millions; four hundred
and twenty millions of whom are still in pagan darkness; an hundred
and thirty millions the followers of Mahomet; an hundred millions
catholics; forty-four millions protestants; thirty millions of the
greek and armenian churches, and perhaps seven millions of jews. It
must undoubtedly strike every considerate mind, what a vast proportion
of the sons of Adam there are, who yet remain in the most deplorable
state of heathen darkness, without any means of knowing the true God,
except what are afforded them by t
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