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The ftrange inconfiflencies that occur in ftatillical tables will 

 appear more furprifing, when we confider that the prefent cul- 

 tivated ftate of geography, though far from perfection, leaves 

 little room for thofe enormous errors which were formerly in- 

 evitable : When fuch, therefore, occur in modern publications, 

 we may juflly, I think, impute them either to want of fkill or 

 want of care in the author ; and conclude that his method was 

 incorredl, or that he performed the operation on very erroneous 

 maps. The following are a few of the numerous inconfiften- 

 cies to which I allude, but fufficient to fhew the very imperfedl 

 Hate of this part of the fcience of ftatiftics. 



Europe in/quare Miles^ of 60 to a Degree^ by various Authors, 





3 3 



Kitchin's map of Europe, according to 



Zimmermann, - - 2,180,466 — 



Bufching - - - - 2,.i.32,ooo— 251,534 



Statiftifche Ueberficht or German po- 

 litical Tables 1786 - - 27r2,ii2— 531,646 ^ f| 



Templeman's Survey of the Globe - 2,749,314 — 568,848 



Crome, on the Size and Population of 



Europe 1785 - _ - 2,785,440 — 604,974 



Bergman's Natural Geography - 2,906,112 — 725, 646^ 



Here the laft difference is above four times the area of the 

 kingdom of France, 



Amidst 



