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Tage aur Régions Equinoxiales du Nouveau
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This latest volume from the most laborious
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mportant than any other to which our
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alde matter, that before it becomes more
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translation, we shall take upon ourselves the
d extracting from it at least as much as
deserving of immediate attention.
is one of the greatest merits of M. Hum-
that, with a powerful imagination, and
of those faculties essential to that elo-
wore which animates his narrative, he enters
the most laborious investigations, and has
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ected with science. This depth of research
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es that of other writings on similar sub-
, and will long outlast the present gene-

What we conceive to be most important is 4 pon which we naturally bestow our first

PRICE 18.

31,000 3d. Negroes. (The African race, without in

termixture of white or Indian blood, both free blacks and slaves.)

20,000 16,000
8,000

4th. Mixed Races, of black, white, and Indian blood. (Mulattoes, Mestizos, Zambos, and the intermixture of their mixed races.)

Mexico

Guatimala ...

6,500

8,500

6,000

16,000

14,000

2,500

1,800

41,500

23,500

Colombia.

Peru and Chili .\.

Buenos Ayres.....

II. HAITI, FRENCH and SPANISH⚫ 820,000
III. SPANISH ANTILLES

IV.

v.

Cuba ....
Porto Rico
Margarita

943,000 281,400 700,000 256,000 ... 225,000 .. 25,000 18,000

FRENCH ANTILLES....................... 219,000
Guadaloupe and its depend-

St. Martin's

Curacoa

St. Croix
St. Thomas
St. John....
St. Bartholomew

400

Cuba and Porto Rico
Rico

1,860,000

420,000 1,255,000

853,000

742,000

197,000

5,323,000

178,000 Recapitulation (according to the preponderance

encies, (Marie Galante, Dé
seada, and part of St. Martin)

of races).

120,000 100,000

Marcinique

Mixed races.

5,324,000

Dutch, Danish, and Swedish

Whites.....

3,276,000

Antilles

776,000

8,000 .. 4,000

Spanish America

3,276,000

Antilles, exclusive of Cuba, Porto Rico,

and Margarita

140,000

Brazils

920,000

United States.

8,575,000

Canadas

550,000

10,000

13,471,000

7,530,000

Brazils, (Indians between Rio Nigro,
Rio Blanco, and the River of the
Amazons)
Independent Indians to the east and"
west of the rocky mountains, on
the frontiers of New Mexico, Mos-
quitos, &c.
Independent Indians of South America....

200,000

400,000

420,000

8,610,000

3d. NEGROES.

Antilles, with Cuba and Porto Rico......
Spanish America on the continent

1,960,000

387,000

Brazils.

1,960,000

Guyana, British, Dutch, and French
United States..

206,000

1,920,000

6,433,000

4th. MIXED RACES.

Spanish America .....

5,328,000

Antilles, (without Cuba, Porto Rico, and
Margarita

190,000

800,000

20,000

6,428,000

to follow the author through the text a that Appendix is annexed. twenty-seventh chapter of the tenth aires an account of the crossing from the vt of Venezuela to the Havannah, with a view of the population of the Antilles, Kest India Islands, as compared with the whole American continent. This French Antilles arison treats of the diversity of the races of Dutch, Danish, & of the degree of personal liberty, of lan-Swedish Antilles and of religions, which prevail among According to our author's computation, Total population le surface of the West Indian Archipeas he more accurately calls it, the ago of the Antilles) contains about are leagues (of twenty to the degree), the four great islands of Cuba, Haiti, and Porto Rico occupy 7,200, or e-tenths. The area of Insular EquiAmerica, or, as we should more shortly - z of the West India Islands, appears, tort, to be nearly equal to that of the

monarchy, and twice as large as that state of Pennsylvania. The total populathese islands is calculated to have been early equal to that of Pennsylvania, or one-third of the population of Scotland.

kwing tables contain, in a condensed mass of valuable information, and

Brazils, and the United States..
Guyana, British, Dutch, and French.

Whites

Indians...

Negroes

Mixed races

Minute accuracy in such calculations as these cannot be expected. It is enough that they are

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Tobacconist.

"From very small beginnings he had risen, by careful industry, to a respectable place in society, and was now the landlord of the property he had for many years only rented. *

"Matters prospered, and he got on by slow, but steady paces. Business began to extend its circle around him, and his customers became more respectable and genteel.

burgh.

No dolphin ever was so gay
Upon the tropic sea.'

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• Expectant friends were staggered, as by a thunder-stroke, when the read will, too legal for their satisfaction, left Miss Jenny in sure and undivided possession of goods and chattels all and sundry.

"For the regular period she mourned with laudable zeal, displaying black feathers, quilled ruffles, crape veils, and starched weepers, in great and unwonted prodigality, which no one objected to, or cavilled about, solely because no one had any business to do so.

"It was evident, that her views of life from that era assumed a new aspect, and the polar winter of her features exhibited something like an appearance of incipient thaw; but the downy chin, wrinkled brow, and pinched nose, were still, alas! too visible. Accordingly, it is more than probable, that, instead of renewing her youth like the eagles, she had only made a bold and laudable attempt of rifacciamento, in thu lighting up her features with a more frequent and general succession of smiles.

"No one can deny, that, in as far as regards externals, Miss Jeuny mourned most hugubri ously and well, not stinting the usually allotted number of calendar months. These passe away, and so did black drapery; garment brightening by progressive but rapid stride Ere the twelve months expired, Miss Jenn flaunted about in colours as gaudy as those the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings,' th counterpart of the bird of paradise, the rival the rainbow. *

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"His lengthening purse, and respectable character, pointed him out as a fit candidate for city honours, and the town-council pitched upon him as an eligible person to grace their "Daniel Cathie was a reputable dealer in board. Thus was a new field opened for him. snuff, tobacco, and candles, in a considerable His reasoning powers were publicly called into market-town in Scotland. His shop had, ex- play; and he had, what he had never before ternally, something neat and enticing about it. been accustomed to, luxurious eating and drinkIn the centre of one window glowed a trans-ing, and both without being obliged to put his "Widow Martha Bouncer was a lady of parency of a ferocious-looking Celt, bonneted, hand into his breeches-pocket. Daniel was a different stamp. Her features still glowed plaided, and kilted, with his unsheathed clay- happy man :— the freshness of youthful beauty, though th more in one hand, and his ram's-horn mull in symmetry of her person was a little destroye the other; intended, no doubt, to emblem to by a tendency to corpulency. She dress the spectator, that from thence he recruited his "He now cogitated with his own mighty well; and there was a liveliness and activit animal spirits, drawing courage from the titil- mind on the propriety of entering upon the about her motions, together with an archne lation of every pinch. Around him were matrimonial estate, and of paying his worship in her smile, which captivated the affectio tastefully distributed jars of different dimen- to the blind god. With the precision of a man of the tobacconist, rather more than was con sions, bearing each the appropriate title of the of business, he took down in his note-book a patible with his known and undisguised ha various compounds within, from Maccuba and list of the ladies who, he thought, might be fit kering after the so-called good things of th Lundy Foot, down to Beggar's Brown and candidates for the honour he intended them, life, the flesh-pots of Egypt. Irish Blackguard. In the other, one half was the merits of the multitude being settled, in his Mrs. Bouncer was the widow of a capta allotted to tobacco-pipes of all dimensions, mind, in exact accordance to the supposed ex-in a marching regiment; consequently she h tastefully arranged, so as to form a variety of tent of their treasures. Let not the reader mis-seen a good deal of the world, and had a hud. figures, such as crosses, triangles, and squares; take the term. By treasure he neither meant of adventures ever open for the admiration decorated, at intervals, with rolls of twist, ser- worth nor beauty, but the article which can be the listening customer. Sometimes it mig pentinings of pigtail, and monticuli of shag. paid down in bullion or bank-notes, possessing even be objected, that her tongue went a lit The upper half displayed candles, distributed the magic properties of adding field to field, too glibly; but she had a pretty face and with equal exhibition of taste, from the prime and tenement to tenement. musical voice, and seldom failed in being four in the pound down to the halfpenny dip; "One after another, the pen was drawn tended to. some of a snowy whiteness, and others of anthrough their names, as occasion offered of aged and delicate yellow tinge; enticing to the scrutinising their claims more clearly, or as eyes of experienced housewifes and spectacled lack-success obliged him, until the candidates cognoscenti. Over the door rode a swarthy son were reduced to a couple, Miss Jenny Dryof Congo, with broad nostrils, and eyes whose bones, a tall spinster, lean, and ill-looking, whites were fearfully dilated,-astride on a somewhat beyond her grand climacteric; and tobacco hogshead,—his woolly head bound with a coronal of feathers,- -a quiver peeping over his shoulder, and a pipe in his cheeks, blown

"The captain did not, as his profess might lead us to inquire, decamp to the oth world, after having swallowed a bullet, a dropped the death-dealing blade from his blo besmeared hand on the field of battle, quietly in his bed, with three pair of excell Mrs. Martha Bouncer, a brisk widow, fat, fair, blankets over him, not reckoning a curious and a few years on the better side of forty. quilted counterpane. Long anticipation less "Miss Jenny, from her remote youth up-the shock of fate; consequently the grief of

widow was not of that violent and overwhelming kind which a more sharply-winded-up catastrophe is apt to occasion; but, having notired the slow, but gradual approaches of the tyrant, in the symptoms of swelled ankles, shrivelled features, troublesome cough, and excessive debility, the event came upon her as an evil long foreseen; and the sorrow occasioned by the exit of the captain was sustained with becoming fortitude.

"Well might Daniel be surprised at the calmly. If you have come to the ceremony, quantity of candles made use of in Miss Jenny's you will find that it does not take place til! establishment. It puzzled his utmost calcula- then. Depend upon it, sir, you have mistaken tion; for though the whole house had been il- the date of your invitation-card.' luminated from top to bottom, and fours to "Well, waiter, you may leave me,' said the the pound had been lighted at both ends, no captain, stroking his chin in evident embar such quantity could be consumed. But there rassment; but stop-who is, she about to she was, week after week, with her young vas-get?' sal with the yellow neck behind her, swinging "Oh, I thought every body knew Mr. a large wicker-basket over his arm, in which Daniel Cathie, one of the town-council, sir,"Having been fully as free of his sacrifices were deposited, layer above layer, the various a tobacconist, and a respectable man,-likely to Bacchus as to the brother of Bellona, the produce of Miss Jenny's marketing. soon to come to the provestry, sir. He is captain left his mate in circumstances not the "On Daniel, on these occasions, she show-rather up in years to be sure; but he is as rich most flourishing; but she was enabled to keep ered her complaisance with the liberality of as a Jew.' up appearances, and to preserve herself from March rains; inquiring anxiously after his "What do you say is his name?' the gulf of debt, by an annuity bequeathed to health; cautioning him to wear flannel, and "Mr. Daniel Cathie, esq., tobacconist and her by her father, and by the liberality of the beware of the rheumatics; telling him her pri- candlemaker near the cross. That is his name widows' fund. vate news, and admiring the elegance of his and designation, -a very respectable man, "Time passed on at its usual careless jog-articles, while all the time her shrivelled sir.' tret; and animal spirits being a gift of nature, features grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile,' "Well, order the girl to have my bed well Like all strong natural impulses, asserted their which only quadrupled the fold upon fold warmed, and to put pens, ink, and paper, into legitimate sway. Mrs. Martha began to smile innumerable' of her wrinkles, and displayed the room. In the mean time bring me the simper as formerly. Folks remarked, that gums innocent of teeth, generosity not being boot-jack.' black suited her complexion; and Daniel Cathie able to elevate three rusty stumps to that ho- "The captain kept his fiery feelings in reod not help giving breath to the gallant re- nour and dignity. straint before Bill; but the intelligence hit him mark, as he was discharging her last year's ac- "There was a strong conflict in Daniel's like a cannon-shot. He retired almost immecount, that he never before had seen her looking mind, and the poor man was completely 'bam-diately to his bed-chamber; but a guest, in the Laf so well. boozled.' Ought he to let Nature have her adjoining room, declared in the morning, that sway for once, take to his arms the blushing he had never been allowed to close his eyes, and beautiful widow, and trust to the success of his efforts for future aggrandisement? or must strong habit still domineer over him, and Miss Jenny's hook, baited with five thousand pounds, draw him to the shores of wedlock, a willing captive?' Must he leave behind him sons and daughters with small portions, and the world "It was nine in the morning; and Daniel, before them, where to choose;' or none and as he was ringing a shilling on the counter, his name die away among the things of the past, which he had just taken for value received, and while cousins ten times removed, alike in blood half-ejaculating aloud as he peered at it through and regard, riot on his substance? The question his spectacles,- Not a Birmingham, I hope,' was complicated, and different interrogatories had a card put into his hand by Jonas Bunput to the oracle of his mind afforded different ting, the Salutation shoe-black. responses. The affair was one, in every respect, so nicely balanced, that he wist not what to do.' Fortune long hung equal in the balance, and might have done so much longer, had not an unforeseen accident made the scale of the widow precipitately to mount aloft, and kick the beam.

On this hint the lady wrought. Daniel a greasy lubberly civilian to be sure, and id not escort her about with powdered colsar, laced beaver, and glittering epaulettes; but was a substantial fellow, not amiss as to ks, and with regard to circumstances, posng every thing to render a wife comfortse and snug. Elysian happiness, Mrs. Martha too experienced a stager to expect on this of the valley of death. Moreover, she had been tossed about sufficiently in the world, and was heartily tired of a wandering life. height of her wise ambition, therefore, ched no higher than a quiet settlement and comfortable domicile. She knew that the bur of trial was come, and sedulously set herw to work, directing against Daniel the whole uliery of her charms. She passed before his every morning in her walk; and some2 stood with her pretty face directed to the window, as if narrowly examining some ade in it. She ogled him as he sat in church; as if she felt happy at seeing him seated the baillies; and Daniel was never met , but the lady drew off her silken glove, vielded a milk-white delicate hand to the mist, who took a peculiar pleasure in ng it cordially. A subsequent rencontre - a stage-coach, where they enjoyed a delight--léte together for some miles (procul, arcal esto profani,) told with a still deeper ; and every thing seemed in a fair way ing amicably adjusted.

Miss Jenny, undismayed by these not un-
ted symptoms of ripening intimacy, deter-
ed to pursue her own line of amatory po-
and set her whole enginery of attack in
tness for operation. She had always con-
d the shop at the cross as the surest path
her to the temple of Bona Fortuna. Thence
she was lost in hopeless mazes, and

ww set where to turn.
She flaunted about, and flashed her finery
optical observers of Daniel, as if to say
a specimen, ex uno disce omnes,-
sad lie under this sample. Hope and
red her heart by turns, though the
Per passion was uppermost; yet she saw
, in the form of Mrs. Bouncer, lurking
ber way; and she took every lawful means,
* as an inamorata considers such, to

from some person's alternately snoring or speaking in his sleep, as if in violent altercation with some one; and that, whenever these sounds died away, they were only exchanged for the irregular tread of a foot measuring the apartment, seemingly in every direction.

Having broken the seal, Daniel read to himself,-A gentleman wishes to see Mr. Cathie at the Salutation inn, on particular business, as speedily as possible. Inquire for the gentleman in No. 7. A quarter before nine, a. m.'

"Some of these dunning travellers!' ex"It was about ten o'clock on the night of a claimed Daniel to himself: they are conti blustering November day, that a tall, red-nually pestering me for orders. If I had the haired, mustachioed, and rawboned personage, lighting up of the moon, I could not satisfy wrapt up in a military great-coat, alighted from them all. I have a good mind not to go, for the top of the Telegraph at the Salutation inn, this fellow not sending his name. It is impuand delivered his portmanteau into the assidu-dence with a vengeance, and a new way of ous hands of Bill the waiter. He was ushered requesting favours!' As he was muttering into a comfortable room, whose flickering these thoughts between his teeth, he was problazing fire mocked the cacophony of his puck-ceeding, however, in the almost unconscious ered features, and induced him hastily to doff act of undoing his apron, which having flung his envelopments, and draw in an arm-chair aside, he adjusted his hair before the glass, to the borders of the hearth-rug.

"Having discussed a smoking and substantial supper, he asked Bill, who was in the act of supplying his rummer with hot water, if a Mrs. Bouncer, an officer's widow, resided in the neighbourhood?

"Yes,' replied Bill; I knows her well; she lives at third house round the corner, on the second floor, turning to the door on your right hand.'

"She is quite well, I hope ?' asked the son of Mars.

"Oh! well, God bless you, and about to take a second husband. I hear as how they are to be proclaimed next week. She is making a good bargain.'

Next week to be married!' ejaculated the gallant captain, turning up his eyes, and starting to his legs with a hurried perplexity.

"So I believe, sir,' continued Bill very

carefully pressed his hat into shape, and drew it down on his temples with both hands; after which, with hasty steps, he evanished from behind the counter.

"Arriving at the inn, he was ushered into No. 7 by the officious Bill, who handed his name before him, and closed the door after him.

"This is an unpleasant business, Mr. Cathie,' said the swaggering captain, drawing himself up to his full length, and putting on a look of important ferocity. It is needless to waste words on the subject; there is a brace of pistols,-both are loaded, -take one and I take the other; choose either, sir. The room is fully eight paces,' added he, striding across in a hurried manner, and clanking his iron heels on the carpet.

"It would, I think, be but civil,' said Daniel, evidently in considerable mental as well as bodily agitation, to inform me what are