In 1808, Mr.Folger makes the population amount to thirty-five, being an increase of ten in eight years.

In 1814, six years afterwards, Sir Thomas Staines states the _adult_ population at forty, which must be a mistake, as fourteen years before, nineteen of the twenty-five then existing were children.

In 1825, Captain Beechey states the whole population at sixty-six, of whom thirty-six were males, and thirty females.

And in 1830, Captain Waldegrave makes it amount to seventy-nine; being an increase of thirteen in five years, or twenty per cent, which is a less rapid increase than might be expected; but there can be little doubt it will go on with an accelerated ratio, provided the means of subsistence should not fail them.
Captain Waldegrave's assumption, that this island is sufficiently large for the maintenance of one thousand souls, is grounded on incorrect data; it does not follow, that because one-twelfth of the island will maintain eighty persons, the whole must support nine hundred and sixty persons.

The island is not more than four square miles, or two thousand five hundred and sixty acres; and as a ridge of rocky hills runs from north to south, having two peaks exceeding one thousand feet in height, it is more than probable that not one half of it is capable of cultivation.