{260} Thus the province of Holland in the republic of the Low Countries, and the emperor in the Germanic Confederation, have sometimes put themselves in the place of the Union, and have employed the federal authority to their own advantage.
{261} See Darby's View of the United States, pp. 64, 79.
{262} See Darby's View of the United States, p. 435.
{In Carey & Lea's Geography of America, the United States are said to form an area of 2,076,400 square miles.—Translator's Note.}
{The discrepancy between Darby's estimate of the area of the United States given by the author, and that stated by the translator, is not easily accounted for. In Bradford's comprehensive Atlas, a work generally of great accuracy, it is said that "as claimed by this country, the territory of the United States extends from 25° to 54° north latitude, and from 65° 49' to 125° west longitude, over an area of about 2,200,000 square miles."—American Editor.}
{263} It is scarcely necessary for me to observe that by the expression Anglo-Americans, I only mean to designate the great majority of the nation; for a certain number of isolated individuals are of course to be met with holding very different opinions.
{264} Census of 1790........ 3,929,328. do 1830........12,856,165.
{do. 1840........17,068,666.}
{265} This indeed is only a temporary danger. I have no doubt that in time society will assume as much stability and regularity in the west, as it has already done upon the coast of the Atlantic ocean.
{266} Pennsylvania contained 431,373 inhabitants in 1790.
{267} The area of the state of New York is about 46,000 square miles. See Carey & Lea's American Geography, p. 142.