قراءة كتاب An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Cons
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An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Cons
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AMERICA.
Countries. | EXTENT | Number of Inhabitants. | Religion. | ||
Length Miles. |
Breadth Miles. |
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Brazil | 2900 | 900 | 14,000,000 | Pagans and Papists. | |
Paraguay | 1140 | 460 | 10,000,000 | Pagans. | |
Chili | 1200 | 500 | 2,000,000 | Pagans and Papists. | |
Peru | 1800 | 600 | 10,000,000 | Pagans and Papists. | |
Country of the Amazons | 1200 | 900 | 8,000,000 | Pagans. | |
Terra Firma | 1400 | 700 | 10,000,000 | Pagans and Papists. | |
Guiana | 780 | 480 | 2,000,000 | Ditto. | |
Terra Magellanica | 1400 | 460 | 9,000,000 | Pagans. | |
Old Mexico | 2220 | 600 | 13,500,000 | Ditto, and Papists. | |
New Mexico | 2000 | 1000 | 14,000,000 | Ditto. | |
The States of America | 1000 | 600 | 3,700,000 | Christians, of various denominations. | |
Terra de Labrador, Nova-Scotia, Louisiana, Canada, and all the country inland from Mexico to Hudson's-Bay | 1680 | 600 | 8,000,000 | Christians, of various denominations, but most of the North-American Indians are Pagans. | |
California, and from thence along the western coast to 70 degrees south latitude, and so far inland as to meet the above article | 2820 | 1380 | 9,000,000 | Pagans. | |
All to the north of 70 degrees | unknown. | Pagans. | |||
Cape Breton | 400 | 110 | 20,000 | Christians. | |
—— Newfoundland | 350 | 200 | 1,400 | Protestants. | |
—— Cumberland's Isle | 780 | 300 | 10,000 | Pagans. | |
—— Madre de Dios | 105 | 30 | 8,000 | Ditto. | |
—— Terra del Fuego | 120 | 36 | 5,000 | Ditto. | |
All the Islands in the Vicinity of Cape Horn | Pagans. | ||||
The Bermudas extend | 16 | 5 | 20,000 | Half English, and Half Slaves. | |
The Little Antilles | |||||
are Aruba | 5 | 3 | 200 | Dutch, and Pagan Negoes. | |
—— Curassoa | 30 | 10 | 11,000 | Ditto. | |
—— Bonaire | 10 | 3 | 300 | Ditto. | |
—— Margaritta | 40 | 24 | 18,000 | Spaniards, and Pagan Negroes. | |
—— St Trinidad | 90 | 60 | 100,000 | Ditto. | |
The Bahamas are | |||||
—— Bahama | 50 | 16 | 16,000 | Pagans. | |
—— Providence | 28 | 11 | 6,000 | Ditto. | |
Besides Eluthera, Harbour, Lucayonegua, Andross Cigateo, Guanaliana, Yumeta, Samana, Yuma, Mayaguana, Ynguana, Caieos, and Triangula—Pagans. | |||||
The Antilles are | |||||
—— Cuba | 700 | 60 | 1,000,000 | Papists. | |
—— Jamaica | 140 | 60 | 400,000 | English, and Pagan Negroes. | |
—— St. Domingo | 450 | 150 | 1,000,000 | French, Spaniards, and Negroes. | |
—— Porto Rico | 100 | 49 | 300,000 | Spaniards and Negroes. | |
—— Vache, or Cows I. | 18 | 2 | 1,000 | Ditto. | |
The Virgin Isles are 12 in number, of which Danes Island is the principal—Protestants. | |||||
The Carribbees are | |||||
—— St. Cruz | 30 | 10 | 13,500 | Danish Protestants. | |
—— Anguilla | 30 | 9 | 6,000 | Protestants, and Negroes. | |
—— St. Martin | 21 | 12 | 7,500 | Ditto. | |
—— St. Bartholomew | 6 | 4 | 720 | Ditto. | |
—— Barbuda | 20 | 12 | 7,500 | Ditto. | |
—— Saba | 5 | 4 | 1,500 | Ditto. | |
—— Guardulope | 45 | 38 | 50,000 | Catholics, and Pagan Negroes. | |
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