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 AREA AND POPULATION.

583

Native countries

Egypt.

British America

South America, ......

Central America and Mexico ....

West Indies .......

China ........

East Indies .......

Persia ........

Other parts of Asia .....

Liberia, Morocco, Algiers, and Barbary States. Cape of Good Hope .....

Africa ........

Azores, Canary, Madeira, and Cape Verd Islands

Sandwich and Society Islands

Australia .......

St. Helena

Isle of France ......

South Sea Islands and New Zealand

Not stated .......

Total aliens

Natives of the United States

Total.

Number

526

117,142

6,201

18,734

40,487

41,443

127

22

27

34

2

279

3,871

86

109

17

3

83

180,854

5,062,414 397,007

5,459,421

The following is an estimate of the number of naturalised citizens residing in the United States, with the countries where they were born: — Ireland, 1,611,000; Germany, 1,498,000; England, 430,000; British America, 250,000; France, 109,000; Scotland, 105,000; Switzerland, 54,000; Wales, 45,000; Norway, 43,000 ; Netherlands, 28,000; Turkey, 28,000; Italy, 10,000; Denmark, 10,000; Belgium, 9,000; Poland, 7,000; Mexico, 7,000; the Antilles, 7,000 ; China, 5,000 ; Portugal, 4,000 ; various countries, 204,000— total, 4,136,000.

A new feature in immigration, destined, in all probability, to be of great importance for the future of the United States, has been the arrival, within the last few years, of large numbers of people of Asiatic race, especially Chinese, in the Western territories of the Union. During the year 1866, the arrivals in California from China were 2,300; in 1867 they were 3,300; in 1868 they were more than 10,000; and in 1869 they reached 12,874. An association of merchants and land-owners was formed in the Southern States in 1869 to encourage the Chinese immigration.

The first negro slaves were imported into Virginia in 1619, and in 1670 there were about 2,000 negro slaves in the colony. The first slave ship fitted out in the English colonies sailed from Boston in 1648. The importation of slaves into the United States was