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Red Sea, where, in a few years, eighteen thousand men were reduced to four thousand, by the mere influence of the climate. The deaths among the Africans of New York are twice as numerous as those of the whites in the same city. In the West India Islands the number of the black population is progressively decreasing, and this in a very remarkable degree. The deaths are most numerous among the adult males, being nearly double those of the females. The disease from which the greatest mortal (particularly of animal) nutriment. In the island of St. Domingo, the garden spot of the Western Hemisphere, great want often prevails among the population on the seaboard. --In the vital statistics of New York, facts similar to those in the West Indies have been noticed. It is computed that, at the rate of diminution — a tenth part of the population every four years--a tenth part of the population every four years--the negro population will have almost ceased to exist in the British West In