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NUMBER OF THE DEAD.-In an article IN the
Portland Tribune it is calculated, that, at the
piraion of 6000 years from the creation, if all
the inhabitants ever born into the world should
then be living, there would be 40 square rods TO
each individual "Heace if every person that
shall have been born into the world at the end OF
5000 years should then be living on the earth
and the inhabitants should be divided into fami-
lies CT 5 persons, there would be about TWO acres
of land &c each family"


The writer founds his calculation upon the
following data s'let US suppose that three gener
aions on average are born and die in 100
years. This will give $50 generations when the
world shall be 200 years old. Multiply the
plumber of in babitants, $50 000, 900, by $50, and
Tie product i72 5a0, ,0eO, 900, for all that has
been brought into existence at that period. This


must far exceed the real numbe when we con-
slider that the earth began with only two persons,
and nearly 100 years after, there were only 3
persons 20 repeOple it. Divide IT. 500, ,0O00OO
BY -, ,S64 900, the number of square miles OF
land, there will be ,237 Inhabitants TO square
mile. Then divide 142 40o, the number oi
square rods in square mile by 6,237, and we
| shall have mcre than IL square rods 10 each in
dividual. But Worcester says in his Geogra
ply, there are about 50 000. 900 square miles OF
/ The earth. And as the number OF Inhabitants We
/ have calculated from must be TOO great her
would be 10 square rods TO each individual
| All this goes against the calculations thar tn


earth has been dug over 100 times 10 bury It's IN
habiianls that were fhe bodies laid upon Ia
surface, they would cover the land to the depi
of 100 feet, &c.