Beer Trade in Germany. Book Trade (Notices).... PAGE. 382 Cotton (Annual) Statement of New 408 66 } PAGE Orleans 229 of Mobile 229 of Charleston 280 Trade (Statistics) 1866-67.. 265 328, 407, 479 Course of American Securities at London (monthly)...80, 162 243, 324, 898, 474 248, 824, 398, 474 of Government Securities at 140 Crops of 1866 in Europe (Statistics) 388 888 .... ..... Debt of Albany. 66 of Buffalo D. .... Census of Rhode Island. China (North) Trade. Chontales Gold Mines... Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton 81 308 196 31 177 132 470 (Public) of the United States. 239 316, 393, 463 416 ... 446 409 Donation Claims (Public Lands).... 277 Emigration at New York and the 152 889 127 181 Railroad... 157 Cities and Towns on the Public E. Lands... 210 Egyptian Agriculture... Clearing House (yearly report). 324 Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad.. 134 186 Cleveland and Toledo Railroad.. Coin and Bullion, Imports and ex- Fire Insurance (Law). 84 298 230 82 Gold (Exports and imports of) at New 230 Mobile Cotton Statement. Tunnel 305 235 McCulloch's (Mr.) Annual Report... 442 N. 246, 325, 401, 477 National Banks, (Quarterly Reports) 194 813 Mining in Victoria.. New York 79, 161, 244, 323, 399, 475 386 Great Britain, Mineral Products of... 860 817 66 .... 308 120 City and County Debts of..... 238 " 95 ... and New Haven Rail- road.... 155 389 219 Homestead law, (Public Lands). 208 1. Stocks of Merchandize 286 282 274 287 180 Life Insurance, (Commercial Law)113, Phosphate (Mineral) of Lime.. ville.... Precious Metals, The routes of the.. 874 298 of the United States, 239, 272 ... 66 220 hibition of.. Expansion, Proposed pro- ... 339 201 ...... By the settlement of the boundary question with Massachusetts in 1862, the profit and loss to Rhode Island in territory and population was as follows: It need scarcely be repeated that Rhode Island, the smallest State in the Union, is only 50 miles long and 35 miles in width, and that a large portion of this width is taken up by the waters of Narragansett Bay, which, extending inland for some 30 miles, divides the state into two unequal parts, leaving a land territory of only 1.054.6 square miles, with a shore washed by tide-water of 350 miles. 1. PERSONAL CENSUS. The State is divided into five counties, and these contain thirty-three townships, five of which are situated on islands. The smallest town * Report upon the census of Rhode Island, 1865; with statistics of the population, agriculture, fisheries and manufactures of the State prepared under the direction of the Secretary of State, by Edwin M. Snow, M. D. Superintendent of the census. 1 vol. 800 p. 112. (Warren) has only 4.7 square miles, the largest (South Kingstown) has Below we give a table showing the area and populatowns and counties: 77.9 square miles. tion of the State by The area and population by counties is as follows: 39.8 1,134 28.6 54.0 1,498 25.8 12,688 1812.6 Hopkinton, 143.6 2,512 57.6 Nort' Kings-Washing town, ton Co. 42.6 3,166 74.3 Sout' Kings town, Richmond, 77.9 4,513 57.9 38.9 1,880 47.0 The density of population in Rhode Island (175.4 to the square mile) is higher than in any other of the United States. In 1865 the population of Massachusetts was 1,267,239, which gives 162.4 to the square mile. In the same year New York had 81.5, and New Jersey 92.9, to the square mile; but between these and Massachusetts, Connecticut havabout 110 to the square mile, finds its position. The density of population in France is about the same as in Rhode Island. Prussia, Bavaria, Austria, Denmark, Scotland, Sweden and Norway are less densely populated. The distribution of the population of course varies the density. The cities of Providence and Newport and the six towns, Bristol, Warren, Cranston, Cumberland, North Providence and Pawtucket containing only 117.9 square miles, but a population of 111,670 persons-11 per cent of the area, and 60 per cent. of the population of the State. If we deduct these from the total area and population, we find in the remainder of the State 936.7 square miles, with 73,295 inhabitants, or only 78 persons to each square mile. The seats of manufactures and commerce are denoted by their superior density. The progress of the State in population is given in the following table: |