The area of Rhode Island is 1250 square miles.

The smallest of the six islands named is Bohol, with an area of 1411 square miles.

It cannot be called a little Rhode Island.
As regards population, Arizona has 122,931.

It is hardly proper to call either Panay with a population of 743,646, Cebu with 592,247, Negros with 460,776, Leyte with 357,641, Bohol with 243,148 or even Samar with only 222,690, a mere Arizona, and New Mexico with 195,310 is also a bit behind.
Luzon really has an area of 40,969 square miles and a population of 3,798,507.

[322] What Blount is pleased to call "the tail to the Luzon kite," is made up as follows:-- Island Area (Square Miles) Population Samar 5,031 222,690 Negros 4,881 460,776 Panay 4,611 743,646 Leyte 2,722 357,641 Cebu 1,762 592,247 Bohol 1,411 243,148 Totals 20,419 2,620,148 Even so, the tail is a trifle long and heavy for the kite, but if we are going to compare Luzon with "the Southern Islands," by which Blount can presumably only mean the rest of the archipelago, why not really do it?
The process involves nothing more complicated than the subtraction of its area and population from those of the archipelago as a whole.
Area (Square Miles) Population Philippines 115,026 7,635,426 Luzon 40,969 3,798,507 Difference 74,057 3,836,919 Performing this operation, we discover that the tail would fly away with the kite, as Luzon has less than half of the total population and only a little more than a third of the total area.
To compare the area or the population of one large island with those of individual small ones, in determining the relative importance of the former in the country of which it makes up a part, is like comparing the area and population of a great state with those of the individual counties going to make up other states.
Blount resorts to a similar questionable procedure in trying to show the insignificance of Mindoro and Palawan.