about twelve bunches of dates; and when ripe, they are gathered and hung up in a dry place until they are sufficiently dry to admit of being packed for market. The best of the date fruit have a firm flesh, of a yellowish color. The product per tree is usually worth from two to three dollars per year, and from one hundred to one hundred aud fifty can be grown on an acre. It is said that this kind of palm lives from one hundred to three hundred years old, and generally are good bearers. In case of planting one hundred to the acre, sugar cane, coffee, or cotton can be grown advantageously under them, within the tropics; for they serve as a screen to such small growths, to shelter them from the scorching influence of the sun.

The cocoa-nut tree will also bear to be mentioned among the trees and plants, which we have just enumerated, to serve in sustaining man within the limits of tropical America. The nut, when partly ripe, is delicious to eat, when made into a pudding with eggs, sugar, milk, and the flour of the jatropha, or that of the arrow root. It also affords, at this time of its growth, a delicate and cooling beverage. Sago or fecula is obtained from the inside of the palm. To almost every purpose of man under a high civilization, either the nut, the roots, or the trunk of the cocoa-nut tree, is applied in foreign countries; and they could as well be so applied within equatorial America. They can be grown advantageously on a plantation where sugar-cane, cotton, plantain, banana, coffee, or allspice is grown; and the growth of them among these staples would not diminish the

products of either, but rather increase them, as the former tend to screen the tender plants from the scorching sun. One hundred of them can be grown on an acre, and each tree usually produces one hundred nuts worth in their native land two dollars, making two hundred dollars per acre, besides the other products grown under them.

Such is the growth of the tropics of America on the low lands, and such their luxuriance in every sense, and such their grandeur, that the stomach nor the eye demand rest, but long, and gaze on, with enraptured delight! Here, within these happy and verdant equatorial bounds, where cold seldom creeps in, and fire is needed not, except for cooking, but where food and clothing can be produced with so little labor, more than three hundred human beings can be supported on a square mile, in ease and comfort. In our previous remarks we have alluded to the capacities of the Mexican States, as Lower California has an area of 60,662 square miles; Sonora, 123,467; Sinaloa, 33,721; Durango, 48,489; Zacatecas, 30,509; Chihuahua, 97,015; Coahuila, 56,571; Nuevo Leon, 16,688; San Louis Potosi, 29,486; and Tamaulipas, 30,335, respectively. These Mexican States are the more temperate portion of the Republic; however, the high altitudes of the other Mexican States possess a climate noted for their promotion of animal health and vigor. These States possess vast fertile fields yet unbarred to the agricultural skill of man. Vera Cruz has a surface of 27,595 square miles; Tobasco has 15,609; Chiapas has 18,680; Oajaca has 31,823; Yucatan has 52,947; Quere

taro has 2,445; Puebla has 13,043; Michoacan has 22,998; Mexico, 19,535; Jalisco has 48,590; Guerrero has 32,003; Guanajuato has 12,616; the Federal District has 90; Colima has 3,020; and Tlaxcala has 1,984. The whole number of square miles in Mexico is 829,916, the population is 7,661,520, and with an average of 9 23-100ths to the square mile, while the more tropical States just mentioned have a surface of 303,875 square miles, with the ability of supporting more than three hundred to the square mile, especially on the low lands up to an elevation of full five thousand feet, which would include three-fourths of the surface of the above States.

The Central American States extend in surface to the amount of 200,000 square miles, in the following order, namely: Costa Rica has 16,000 square miles; Mosquitia has 23,000; San Salvador has 13,000; Nicaragua has 48,000; Gautemala has 28,000; and Honduras has 72,000. The population is about 2,034,000, with a fraction over 10 to the square mile. The capacity of these States fully developed, with their natural luxuriance, fecundity and climate, would readily support four hundred of the human family to the square mile, having the ability to grow every product to supply the wants of man, with ample water powers for manufacturing. Here the very is fumed with the incense arising from bursting blos soms, while perennial bloom and verdure deck the fields and forests, on which side soever we turn, to admire the lovely and enchanting scene!

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The South American States, which we previously alluded to, aside from Brazil, as being well adapted,

by their varied climates or temperatures, and their remarkable fertility and exuberance, to slave labor, may attract our attention, as follow, to-wit: New Grenada has an area of 521,948 square miles: Venezuela has 426,712; British Guiana has 96,000; Dutch Guiana has 59,765; French Guiana has 27,560; Ecuador has 287,638; Peru has 498,726; Bolivia has 473,298; and Chili has 249,952. The whole area of these States does not exceed 2,647,609 square miles, with a population of near three to the square mile, and with surface enough for more than fifty States of the size of the State of New York, allowing 50,000 square miles to the State, and with the capacity to sustain fully two hundred to the square mile. For in the low lands, agriculture and commerce can be pursued to any extent desired; and on the table lands, agriculture and manufacturing, as the mountain streams afford ample facilities for the latter. In this connection, and with our laudable spirit of progression South and Southwest with slave labor, and letting the Northern slave States become free States, when time shall have been given to the slaveholders to send their slaves South, we will not omit to mention the vast field near at hand, and awaiting us in the

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The area of the Dominican Republic embraces 17,609 square miles, its population is 136,500, and number to the square mile 7 75-100ths.

'The French Islands embrace an area of 631 square miles, their population is 154,975, and number to the square mile 245 6-10ths.

The Dutch Islands have an area of 369 square

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miles, their population is 28,497, and number to the square mile is 77 2-10ths.

The Swedish West India Island is St. Bartholomew, and has an area of 25 square miles, a popula tion of near 9,000, and 360 to the square mile.

The Danish Islands have an area of 127 square miles, a population of 39,628, and 312 to the square mile.

The Spanish Islands embrace an area of 51,143 square miles, a population of 1,446,974, and 281 to the square mile.

The British Islands have an area of 15,663 square miles, a population of 835,944, and 53 3-10ths to the square mile.

The whole area of the West Indies extends to no more than 150,000 square miles, and the population to 3,500,000, and 23 3-10ths to the square mile. Admitting that these islands could all support a population like the Swedish island St. Bartholomew, they would possess a population of 44,000,000 of souls, or existences; and if each one should produce the sum of $20 annually, the aggregate would reach the sum of $880,000,000 per year; we mean besides their support, yet let it drop down to $5 each, and the sum would be $222,000,000 per year. This would be the aggregate increase of their wealth per year, which, as a combined whole, would be enormous!

Their tropical and marintine positions make them common centers of attraction, coupled with their volcanic soils, which excite and stimulate luxuriance in growth, too remarkable, in nature and character, to be passed over in silence. Their shores are whit