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10 The present population of the United States consists of In 1754, another return was made to the Board of Trade, in the following

We will now give the population at seven successive periods, as indicated by the returns of the official census of the United States.

The following is the official report of Immigration from 1790 to 1850. Much of it is conjectural and approximate.

The immigrants are thus conjecturally distributed among the nations of the earth. The estimate is a rough one.

Celtic—Irish (one-half ) 1,350,000 Teutonic — Germans, Danes, Swedes, etc. (one-fourth) 675,000 Miscellaneous — All other nations 734,329

The following statement exhibits the nationality of the immigration to the United States for the calendar year, 1851 (Dec. 31, 1850, to Dec. 31, 1851):—

From Great Britain and Ireland 264,222 „ Germany 72,283 „ France 20,107 Of these there were Males 245,017 „ „ Females 163,745 „ „ Unknown 66 Table of Immigration for the first four months of 1853. From the British Islands 15,023 „ French Ports 8,768 „ German Ports 3,511 „ Belgian and Dutch. . . 2,747 „ Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian 135