I would beg the reader, as he shuts my book, to refer to those
sixteen lines'1, for they convey a better idea of its blessings in this
respeet, than I have done in as many pages'.
b 112—128.
il have just learned, from the best Portuguese authority, that, by the census lately
made, the inhabitants amount to 98,000 and a fraction ; that of 1818, as I have
already submitted, gave 90,916; so that the increase in ten years is fourteen per cent,
or the same as that of Great Britain in the ten years between 1801 and 1811.
