| Show the center of population in calculating the location of the center of population ol 01 our country the con sue officials consider the whole face of united states as being a plain surface itself without weight but capable of sustaining weight in making this calculation cu they consider the country cb being bevelled levelled level led ath its inhabitants in number and position as they are found each individual being assumed to be of equal weight and consequently to exert on the pivotal point directly proportionate to hia distance alie pivotal point is now or x aa in a place twenty miles east of geographically the center of population in 1890 was at a place which would in north latitude 59 degrees 11 minutes 9 seconds west longitude 85 degrees 32 minutes 9 seconds in 1780 at kiino oe taking th first the center of population was at a spot twentythree twenty three miles east of baltimore md daring the years that lave elapsed between that time and the time of the taking census of 1890 the center of population moved westward exactly miles st louis lle public |
