Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1879 — Our Complex Population. [ARTICLE]

Our Complex Population.

Some conception of the extent and variety of our foreign population may be obtained in examining the following figures, which show the number and na' tionaliry of immigrants arrived in the United States during the eight calendar years from 1871 to 1878, inclusive: England, 335,776; Ireland, 332,139; Scotland, 65,703; Wales, 4,785; Jersey island, 23; Guernsey island, 2; Channel islands, 9; Isle of Man, 51; Great Britain, not specified, 7,815; a total for Great Britain and Ireland of 746,303; Germany, 580,129; Austria, 45,047; Hufigary, 5,289; Sweden, 64,176; Norway, 66,388; Denmark, 22,267; Netherlands, 12,307; Belgium, 5,011; Switzerland, 19,390; France, 64.241; Italy, 38,376; Sicily, 619; Sardinia, 13; Corsica, 3; Malta, 38; Greece, 167; Spain, 4,333; Portugal, 3,743; Gibraltar, 41; Russia in Europe, 31,996; Poland, 10,185; Finland,2B6; Lapland, 1; Heligoland, 6; Turkey in Europe, 284. Total from Continental Europe, 974,365, or a total from Europe of 1,720,668. From Asia, 106,743; Africa, 306; America, 254,072; Pacific islands, 9,468; all others, not specified 9,194, Aggregate, 2,100,451.