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6764. POPULATION, Growth of.—[continued].

Our growth is now so
well established by regular enumerations through
a course of forty years, and the same grounds of
continuance so likely to endure for a much
longer period, that, speaking in round numbers,
we may safely call ourselves twenty millions
in twenty years, and forty millions in forty
years.—
To Sir John Sinclair. Washington ed. vii, 22.
(M. 1816)

See Emigration.