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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal (v. 9)
The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - v. 9 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Moon 23' 30" must be near the end of the eclipse, since both the time and the quantity of the enlightened part of the Moon continue augmenting ; nevertheless the... more » time of this measurement is 21h 0' 13".9, i. e. less than 21h 20' 45, which is evidently absurd. This error of the text leaves no other alternative than to deduct the time for which the observation is calculated from that of the full Moon, which gives us 19h 27' 28".8. Another evident error of the text is detected as follows : Mean Time at Paris, 21h V 13".9 according to the text, . Ibague, 15 50 54.9 .-. Longitude in Time, 5" 9' 19" instead of - 5 9 39 given in the text. Error, 0" O/ 20" Art. VIII.—Remarks on the Increase of the Population of the United States and Territories of North America, with Original Tables, deduced from tfic American Population Returns, to illustrate the various Rates of Increase in the White Population and Slaves, and also the comparative degrees in which Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures prevail. By Geobge Hahvey, Esq. M. G. S. M. A. S-, andc. (Continued from Vol. VIII. p. 339.) . Slave Population. XlVERY lover of humanity necessarily feels an interest in the condition of that class of our fellow men who are doomed to spend the long range of a miserable existence in a state of slavery. The heart sympathises with their misfortunes, and we eagerly embrace every opportunity, which is likely to throw even but a feeble and uncertain light on their unhappy condition. The returns of the slaves contained in the American Population Tables, are probably the only sources from which any satisfactory information can be drawn, to illustrate this very important subject. It has been already remarked, that in the enumerations of the American people, prior to the census of 1820,...« less