It would be easy to prove, says Humboldt, that the whole archipelago of the West Indies, which now comprise scarcely 2,400,000 negroes and mulattoes, (free and slaves,) received from 1670 to 1825, nearly FIVE MILLIONS of Africans.

In these revolting calculations on the consumption of the human species, we have not included the number of unfortunate slaves who have perished in the passage, or been thrown into the sea as damaged merchandize.