the plain, to wit, New Orleans,
Mobile, Galveston, Quebec and Montreal, the comparison between New
York and suburbs, and the interior cities of the plain will be shown
by the following figures:

1830. 1860 Est. Increase.
New York and accessories 234,448 1,170,000 5 fold
Interior cities and town of
the plain 172,000 2,346,000 13 "

The five largest cities of the Atlantic border exhibit a growth, as
compared with the five largest cities of the plain, as follows:

1830. 1860 Est.
New York and dependencies 235,000 1,170,000
Philadelphia " 170,000 700,000
Baltimore " 83,000 250,000
Boston " 80,000 200,000
Charleston " 31,000 60,000

599,000 2,380,000

Cincinnati and suburbs 28,000 250,000
New Orleans " 47,000 170,000
St. Louis " 6,000 170,000
Chicago " 100 150,000
Pittsburg " 17,000 145,000

98,000 885,000

This table shows the five Atlantic cities to have quadrupled, and the
five cities of the interior plain have increased nine times. Is this
relative rate of increase of the exterior and interior cities to be
changed, and, if it is to be changed, when is the change to commence?
We can foresee no cause adequate to that effect, or tending toward it.
On the contrary, it seems to us certain as any future event, that the
rate of growth of the interior cities, compared with those on the
Atlantic border, will be increased.

The proportion which their present numbers bear to the numbers of the
rural population does not exceed one to six, whereas the urban
population of the Atlantic border is not less than one to three of the
rural. This disproportion of city and rural population will hereafter
change more rapidly in favor of the interior than the Atlantic cities,
because of the greater fertility of soil producing more food from an
equal amount of labor; and also, by reason of the more rapid growth of
the general population, of which an increasing proportion will prefer
city to country life. Will it not be so? Will not the general increase
of population be greater in the interior States? Will not the
productions of the soil increase faster? And can there be a doubt that
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