NUMBER OF INHABITANTS TO THE SQUARE MILE. - The United
States furnishes a population of 14 to every square mile of inhabited portions of the
country and 7 to the square mile for the whole territory embraced within the limits of the
federal jurisdiction. - Contrast this present occupation of the soil with the population of
the most thickly peopled portions of Europe, and it will seem that there is ample room
for us to increase our numerical strength, and not be crowded either. Belgium has 280 to
the square mile: Holland 254, and Great Britian and Ireland 206, Russia has but 28 to the
square mile and Sweden and Norway only 13. France has 158; Italy 175: Germany 147;
Austria 127; and Switzerland 133.