Virginia Argus

In Asia	650,000,000
In Africa	150,000,000
In America	150,000,000
In Europe	130,000,000

From the Churchman's Magazine.

HUMAN LIFE.

We lash the lingering moments into speed,
To hurry us into eternity.

Calculations have been made to ascertain the number of inhabitants on the globe and thence to deduce the number of those who die in any given time. The general computation stands thus.

1,080,000,000

In all one thousand and four score millions. If then we suppose, for the sake of a round number, that the Earth is inhabited by one thousand millions of men, or thereabout, and that thirty three years make a generation, it follows, that in that space of time, there die out one thousand millions.—Then the number of deaths each year amounts to 30,000,000—each day to 83,333, and each hour to 3,416.— This computation I suppose is under the truth, yet it shows us with what impetuosity the tide of human life goes out—how rapidly our hours and minutes flee—and that our life is but a vapor which continueth for a moment.