Part 9 (2/2)

Year 1841-- Whites, 418,291 Free colored, 152,838 Slaves, 436,495 --------- Total, 1,007,624 Excess of colored over white, 171,042

Year 1851-- Whites, 605,560 Free colored, 205,570 Slaves, 442,000 -------- Total, 1,253,130

Year 1854-- Total population, 1,500,000

_Proportions between the s.e.xes._--In 1774 the white males formed 58 per cent., and the females 42 per cent., of the population; free colored, males, 52, females, 48; male slaves, 65, females, 35. Total, males, 58 per cent., females, 42.

In 1792 the proportion was-- Whites, males, 0.55 ” females, 0.45 Free colored, males, 0.47 ” females, 0.53 Slaves, males, 0.56 ” females, 0.44 Total, males, 0.53 ” females, 0.47

In 1817-- Whites, males, 0.55 ” females, 0.45 Free colored, males, 0.52 ” females, 0.48 Slaves, males, 0.62 ” females, 0.38 Total, males, 0.57 ” females, 0.43

In 1827-- Whites, males, 0.54 ” females, 0.46 Free colored, males, 0.48 ” females, 0.52 Slaves, males, 0.64

Slaves, females, 0.36 Total, males, 0.56 ” females, 0.44

In Paris, the ratio is 54.5 per cent. males, to 45.5 females; in England, 50.3 per cent. males, and 49.7 per cent. females, and in the United States, 51 per cent. males, and 49 per cent. females.

The ratio of legitimate to illegitimate births, deduced from the observations of five years, is as follows:

2.1136 to 1 among the whites; 0.5058 to 1 among the colored; 1.0216 to 1 in the total.

That is to say, establis.h.i.+ng the comparison per centum, as in the proportion of the s.e.xes, we have:

Whites, 67.8 per cent. legitimate, and 32.2 per cent. illegitimate.

Colored, 33.7 ” ” ” 66.3 ” ”

Total, 50.5 ” ” ” 49.5 ” ”

No capital or people of Europe, Stockholm alone excepted, offers so startling a result, nearly one half the number of births being illegitimate.

Taking the average from the statements of births for five years, we find that in every 100 legitimate whites there are 51.1 males, and 48.9 females; and in an equal number of illegitimate, 49 males, and 51 females. Among people of color, in 100 legitimate births, 50.6 males, and 49.4 females; and in the illegitimate, 47.2 males, and 52.8 females.

And finally, that, comparing the totals, we obtain in the legitimate, 51.6 males, and 48.4 females; and in the illegitimate, 47.1 males, and 52.9 females. Consequently these observations show that in Cuba, in the illegitimate births, the number of males is much less than that of females, and the contrary in the legitimate births.

_Ratio between the Births and Deaths for five years._ +------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ | | 1825 | 1826 | 1827 | 1828 | 1829 | | +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ | Births, | 3,129 | 3,443 | 3,491 | 3,705 | 3,639 | | Deaths, | 2,698 | 2,781 | 3,077 | 3,320 | 3,712 | | Difference,| 431 | 662 | 414 | 385 | 73 | +------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

_Agriculture._--The total number of acres comprising the whole territory is 14,993,024. Of these, in 1830, there were used:

In sugar-cane plantations, 172,608 ” coffee trees, 184,352 ” tobacco, 54,448 ” lesser or garden and fruit culture, 823,424 -------- Total acres, 1,234,832

Leaving over 13,000,000 of acres uncultivated. Some of these uncultivated lands are appropriated to grazing, others to settlements and towns; the remainder occupied by mountains, roads, coasts, rivers and lakes,--the greater part, however, wild.

Total value of lands in 1830, $94,396,300 Value of buildings, utensils, etc., 55,603,850

The different products of cultivation were valued as follows:

Sugar canes in the ground, $6,068,877 Coffee trees, 32,500,000 Fruit trees, vegetables, etc., 46,940,700 Tobacco plants, 340,620 ----------- Total value of plants, 85,850,197 Total value of wood exported, consumed on the island and made into charcoal, $3,818,493 Minimum value of the forests, 190,624,000 Value of 138,982 slaves, at $300 each, 41,694,600 Total value of live stock, 39,617,885

RECAPITULATION.

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