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England,
New
England.
COUNTIES.
Bedford
>erks
Buckingham
Cambridge
Chefter
Cornwall
Cumberland
Derby
Devon
Dorfet
Durham
ElTex
Gloucefter
Hereford
Hertford
Huntingdon
Kent
Lancafter
Leicefter
Lincoln
Middlefex
Monmouth
Norfolk
Northampton
Northumberland
Nottingham
Oxford
Rutland
Salop
Somerfet
Southampton
Stafford
Suffolk
Surry
Suffex
W arwick
Weftmorland
Wilts
Worcefter
York (Eaft Riding)
(North Riding))
(Well Riding))
HOUSES.
Inhabited
By Low many
Families occu¬
pied.
11,888
20,373
20,443
16, *39
34,482
32,906
2L573
31,822
57,955
2L437
27,195
3%,37*
46,457
17, °03
17,681
6,841
5L585
114,270
25,992
4L395
112,912
8,948
47,6i7
26,665
26,518
25,611
20,599
3,274
31,182
48,040
38,345
45,198
32,233
46,072
25,272
40,847
7,897
29,462
26,711
25,781
3*>S*i
111,146
13,980
23,416
23,384
19,262
37,6i3
39,040
25,893
33,660
72,559
24,142
38,109
46,784
55,i33
18,822
20,092
8,! 50
65.967
132,147
27.967
42,629
199,854
9>9°3
57,930
29,361
35,503
3°,081
23,750
3,563
34,5oi
57,oi3
45,331
48,185
43,48i
63,673
3°,755
44,028
9,026
30,527
29,741
3L544
34,542
**7,379
PERSONS.
Maies.
Females.
11,467,870 1,778,420
3°,j ■ 3
52,b2l
52,094
44,od1
92,759
89,868
54,377
79,401
157,24°
53,667
74,77°
111.356
117,180
43,955
48,063
18,521
i5i,374
322.356
63,943
102,445
373,655
22,173
129,842
63,4X7
73,357
68,558
53,786
7,978
82,563
126,927
105,667
118,698
101,091
127,138
78,797
99,942
20,175
87,380
67,631
67,457
74,904
276,005
32,870
56,394
55,8.14
45,265
98,992
98,401
62,853
81,471
185,761
61,652
85,591
115,081
133,629
45,236
49.514
19,047
156,250
350,375
66,138
106,1 x 2
444,474
23,409
143,529
68,540
83,744
7*,792
55,834
8,378
85,076
146,825
113,989
120,455
109,340
141,905
80.514
108,248
21,442
97,727
7i,7°2
7*,976
80,602
287,948
OCCUPATIONS.
rerfons chiefly
eixipioyed in
Agriculture.
Ditto in Trade
Manufadlure.
or Handicraft
3,987,935 4,243,d9Q
I 8,766
38,155
25,083
23,054
38.823
42,687
21,062
3L743
96,208
28,204
18,217
65,174
49,420
3i,26i
20,611
9,536
54,124
52,018
23.823
60, C84
43,4i7
12,871
61,791
29-303
23,190
23,904
33,109
3,995
45,046
6i,434
co,696
43,93°
55,744
2,746
38,925
34,756
12,141
53,5*7
38,865
3M38
44,o6i
55,695
1,524,227
13,816
16,921
20,138
11,988
67,447
24,870
18,387
39,5i6
60,844
22,259
2 c,2o8
25,283
49,645
8,588
12,861
4,484
43,253
269.259
42,036
24,263
162.260
5,540
38,181
31,426
25,738
35,513
16,346
J,923
35,535
54,053
30,303
72,465
34,064
42,865
19,608
91,922
8,673
39,422
30,230
, 22,003
26,207
164,188
1,789,531
Total of
Perfons.
63,393
109,215
107,444
89,346
191,751
188,269
117,230
161 ,1 4 2
345,001
115,319
160,261
226,437
250,809
89,191
5 -577
5 568
307,624
672,731
130,081
208,557
818,129
45,582
273,371
*3*,757
*57,*°*
140,350
109,620
16,3 56
167,639
273,750
219,656
239,T53
210,431
269,043
159,311
208,190
4I,6i7
185,107
139,333
139,433
155,506
563,953
8,331,434
F'ngland,
New
England,
New ENGLAND, late a province of the Britilli
empire in America, is bounded on the north by Ca¬
nada, on the eaft by Nova Scotia and the Atlantic
ocean, on the fouth by the Atlantic and Long Illand
found, and on the weft by New York. It lies in the
form of a quarter of a circle. Its weft line, beginning
at the mouth of Byram river, which empties into
Long Illand found at the fouth-weft corner of Con¬
necticut, latitude 410, runs a little eaft of north, un¬
til it ftrikes the 45th degree of latitude, and then
curves to the eaftward almoft to the gulf of St Law¬
rence. * t
This country was difeovered in the beginning of "the When firll
l6lh century, and called 'North Virginia; but no Eu-dLcovereik
ropeans fettled there till the year 1608. The firft co¬
lony, which was weak and ill-directed, did not fuc-
ceed 5 and, for fome time, there were only a few ad¬
venturers who came over at times in the fummer, built
themfelves temporary huts for the fake of trading with
the favages, and, like them, difappeared again for the
0.2 ** reft