FOOTNOTES:

[D] In coming to the record of more active service, the Journal form
must be abandoned. The next chapter will give some account of an
expedition up the St. Mary's River.

THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS.

A little more than two centuries ago the site of New York City was
bought by its first white owners for twenty-four dollars. The following
tabular statement exhibits the steps of its progressive settlement since
then.

Year. Population. Year. Population.
1656 1,000 1820 123,706
1673 2,500 1825 166,089
1696 4,302 1830 202,589
1731 8,628 1835 270,068
1756 10,381 1840 312,852
1773 21,876 1845 371,223
1786 23,614 1850 515,394
1790 33,131 1855 629,810
1800 60,489 1860 814,254
1810 96,373 1864 1,000,000+

Taking the first census as a point of departure, the population of New
York doubled itself in about eleven years. During the first century it
increased a little more than tenfold. It was doubled again in less than
twenty years; the next thirty years quadrupled it; and another period of
twenty years doubled it once more. Its next duplication consumed the
shorter term of eighteen years. It more than doubled again during the
fifteen years preceding the last census; and the four years since that
census have witnessed an increase of nearly twenty-three per cent. This
final estimate is of course liable to correction by next year's census,
but its error will be found on the side of under-statement, rather than
of exaggeration.

The property on the north-west corner of Broadway and Chamber Street,
now occupied in part by one of Delmonico's restaurants, was purchased
by a New York citizen, but lately deceased, for the sum of $1,000: its
present value is $125,000. A single Broadway lot, surveyed out of an
estate which cost the late John Jay $500 per acre, was recently sold at
auction for $80,000, and the purchaser has refused a rent of $16,000 per
annum, or twenty per cent on his purchase-money, for the store which he
has erected on the property. In 1826, the estimated total value of real
estate in the city of New York was $64,804,050. In 1863, it had reached
a total of $402,196,652, thus increasing more than sixfold within the
lifetime of an ordi