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Show SOME UNTHOUGHT OF STATISTICS. Allowing two square feet to each person, the entire population of Boston could stand on the public garden, with a good deal of room to spare. The entire population of the United States could stand in Boston proper (not including Brighton, Dorchester and West Roxbury). The entire population of the world (now estimated at 1,410,000,000) could stand on the island of Martha's Vineyard, or in the space occupied by the towns of Boston, Brookline, Newtown, Needham, Dedham, Hyde Park and Milton. The State of Massachusetts would in this way accommodate seventy times the populations of the world. The entire population of the world, placed side by side, and allowing two feet to each person, would encircle the earth twenty times. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, taken together, are as large as England. Any one of the States of Georgia, Illinois, Iowa or North Carolina is as large as England. Kansas is as large as England and Scotland together. Ireland is about the size of Maine. France is more than twice as large as England, Wales, and Scotland together. Texas is thirty-five times as large as Massachusetts, or as large as Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, and Indiana combined. The entire population of the United States could be provided for in the State of Texas, allowing each man, woman, and child four acres of land. The entire population of the world could be provided in the United States, allowing each person one and a half acres of land. The continent of Australia will just come within the limits of the United States. |
