284
POPULATION,
POPULATION.
Number of Number of Number of Whites. Coloured. Negroes.
1673
no account no account taken. taken.
500
1690
600
1707
2892
1720
3672
19,186
1724
5200
19,800
no account taken.
12,892
1729
4088
22,611
1734
3772
24,408
1756
3412
31,428
1774
2590
37,808
1788
no account no account taken. taken.
3000
1805
3000
1810 1817 1824
1230
2590
1787
1300
-
no account no account taken. taken.
-
-
CM
oo
37,808 36,000 36,000 37,000 32,249 30,314 29,839
1827 1831
o
no account taken.
-
-
29,537
No census has been taken since 1821, but the population now may be estimated at about the same. The greatest bulk is employed in agriculture ; the manufacture is sugar, rum, and molasses. The island is supposed to contain 69,299 miles, or 108 square miles, consequently the average population is estimated to the square mile in this island to be about 343.