The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
CONCERNING SOME AREAS.
Interesting Geographical Information not
Generally Known.

Interesting geographical Information not
Generally Known.
There is great ignorance in Americs
respecting the area of our country, sayt
a New York paper. It is no marvel,
therefore, that Europeans should sc
often make mistakes on this subject.
Like want of precise and correct infor.
nation is manifest in this country re.
specting Europe, particularly Great
Britain and ireland. Our readers will,
we doubt not, be pleased to see the
matter correctly stated. Let us begin
with North Britain:
Scotland, including the Hebrides, orS. N'''''
neys and other adjacent islands, has
This is larger than the whole State Of '''S'
South Carolina, which has. ....... 29,9s,
II is larger than New Hampshire, vir-
mont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Is
land, whose united area Is. ............ 2s,5ss
1t is more than six times as large as the
state OF Connecticut. And II is very
considerably larger than the united
area of Maryland, District Of Column
bia, Delaware, New Jersey, Connect-
cut and Rhode Island, which reaches
the sum OF. ............ 27,60I
ireland has an area of of...........,.,,,. 82.51s
This is larger than the united area of New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
. and Connecticut, which is. .......... 31,p6t
1t is larger than the united area of
Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and
. vermont, which is.................. 31,T7e
1t is nearly as large as the State of Indi-
ana, which is. s........................ ss,soe
T,s Tnsland and Wales contain. ......... 5s,22O
Ihis Is larger than the State of Georgia,
>. which is.. is......................... $4,000
~ ~ a. IN larger than Michigan, which is 56,24S
1t is more than u, ooj greater than Penn.
. sylvania, which is. is.................. A6OOO
IL is more than II 900 greater than New
1t is more than a,gco greater than the s''0'
united area of Maryland, Dela-
ware, New Jersey, Connecticut Rhode
Island, Massachusetts,, Vermont and
New Hampshire, which is.....,.,,. b4e3s
Ireland and Great Britain united have an
of .'''.' ola
This is more than 1000 larger than ''''
all New England, New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland and South Carolina,
whose united area is...........,.,,. is. 1l5.e87
1t is more than 1900 larger than all
New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Maryland, which is ll7ses
And yet Great Britain and ireland united
do not contain one-half the area of
New Mexico, which is: s:............... ~ 24s, ,oss
And is not by 5000 as large as Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, whose united
omittins Alaska, the United States owns 'i'0
,, on this continent. 2,9ls,eos
But the British possessions in North
America smount o.................. s,5s2s o
And the whole British empire, exclusive
of Transvaal, Fiji, etc., embraces E. 1854, ,514
SO that the British empire controls
nearly thrice as large an area as the
United States if we leave ont Alaska
and more than twice as large an area if
we include Alaska. Missouri is by more
than z, ZOO square miles larger than all
New England. London has q larger
population than the whole State of New
York.
From these figures it is easy to show
what will be the population of the
United States or of the British empire
when their possessions shall have 100.
or 200, or 300, or 400 souls to the square
mile.
1t may interest our readers and lead
them to further calculations for them.
selves to see the area in square miles
OF our several States and Territories.
We append it for their use:
Maine, 81, 1866; New Hampshire,
$3.50; Vermont, 10, 212 Massachusetts,
1900; Rhode Island, 1, ,3O6 Connecti-
cut, 4,674 New York, 47,OOO; New
Jersey, $500; Pennsylvania, 46, 900 ::
Delaware, 2.12O; Maryland, 11,124 !;
District of Columbia, 60; Virginia and
West Virginia, 81, ,S52 North Carolina.
so, 704; South Carolina, 29, 1856 Geor.
gia, 5S, 900; Florida, SO, 26s; Alabama,
5O, ~ Mississippi, AT, 1856; Louisiana,
Al, 255; Texas, 237, ,504 Arkansas, g.
1913 Tennessee, $1,000; Kentucky, 37,-
$50; Ohio, 39,964 ; Michigan, Sc, 243 !;
Indiana, 33,S09; Illinois, 55, 4O5 Wis
consin. 50, ,924 Iowa, so, ,914 Minneso-
ia, 95, 264 Missouri, 81, $50 +; California,
1888, 99l Oregon, 102, ,6O6 Kansas, 49,
418; Nebraska, 122, ,007; New Mexico,
243,O63 Utah, 1913, 1886; Washington
Territory, 49, Nevada, 1882 !;
Colorado, los, 5,S18; Dakota, 318, 1913.