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the jurisdiction of the Reichstag, the kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia 
having a diet for local legislation. The legislative body of the whole 
monarchy is composed of sixty delegates from the Reichsrath and as 
many from the Reichstag, two- thirds of each delegation being elected 
by the popular branch of the legislature, and the other third by the 
hereditary branch. 
The total area of the monarchy is less than that of Texas. Hungary 
proper is somewhat larger than Kansas or Minnesota; Upper and Lower 
Austria together are less than Maryland ; the kingdom of Galicia is not 
quite equal to Maine; Transylvania is considerably less than West Vir- 
ginia. 
Next to Sivitserland: Austro-Hungary is the most broken country in 
Europe, three-fourths of its territory being hilly or mountainous. Its 
river system is very extensive, the Danube alone, with its tributaries, 
draining over two-thirds of the territory. The Adriatic drains over six 
hundred miles of the coast, not including islands. The climate presents 
a wide range of variation, corresponding. to latitude, elevation, and local 
influences. In the south, rice, figs, olives, and other semi. tropical 
plants are grown, while grapes and maize are produced in nearly all 
parts of the empire. 
The population of the monarchy, exclusive of the regular army, atthe 
close of 1869, was 35,634,858, or nearly 151 per square mile; that of the 
western half, '20,! 217,531, or not quite 170 per square mile; ‘that of the 
eastern half, including the dependencies of the Hungarian Crown, 
15,417,327, or over 125 per square mile. The most densely peopled 
provinces are those of Lower Austria, Bohemia, and Silesia, averaging 
over 260 persons to the square mile. Of tbe whole population, 9,003,700, 
or over 25 per cent., are Germans; 6,550,000, or over 18 per cent. +) are 
Czechs, means, and Selav onians ; 5, 705, 800, or over 16 per cent., are 
Magyars; 2,685,600, or over 73 per cent., are Romanians and Poles, in 
about equal. proportions; Croatians and Servians constitute about 84 
per cent., and the Rutherians nearly 9 per cent.; Italians number 
588,000, Slov enians 1,254,200, and Jews 1,372,300. The popuiatiou re- 
sides in 927 towns, 2 39 boroughs, and 73,252 villages. Vienna has 
overamillion inhabitants. Nineteen towns in the Austrian territory have 
between 20,000 and 50,000, and 43 between 10,000 aud 20,000, with sev- 
eral very large cities. In the Hungarian territory, are Buda-Pest with 
over 300,000, and several otherlarge cities; 27 towns have between 
20,000 and 50,000, and 54 others over 10,000. 
The religious statistics show 23,750,776 Roman Catholics, 5,918,000 
Greek Catholics, 8,140 Armenian Catholics, 3,037,176 schismatic Greek 
Catholics, 1,741 schismatie Armenian Catholics, 1,856,316 Protestants of 
the Augsburg persuasion, 2,128,549 of the Helvetic churches, 1,372,333 
Jews, and 7,419 Mohammedans and other sects. 
Over four. fifths of the soil is occupied either with agriculture or for- 
ests. The latter cover 28.34 per cent. of the whole monarchy, the largest 
proportion, 44.95 per cent., being in Styria, and the smallest, ! 2). 39 | per 
cent., in Dalmatia. The acreage devoted to general crops is 31.50 per 
cent. of the whole; vineyards, 0.94 per cent.; meadows and gardens, 
12.87 per cent.; pastures, 14.37 per cent.; forests, 28.34 per cent.; barren 
land, 12 per cent. The most fertile grain lands are in Hengary, Croato- 
Slavonia, Bohemia, Moravia, and Galicia, all of which raise a surplus for 
export. In all these provinces, except Galicia and in Upper Austria, 
Styria, Carinthia, and Tyrol, fruit culture is very general. Flax, hemp, 
and sugar-beets flourish in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Hungary ; 
hops in Bohemia; tobacco and rape-seed in Hungary. Wine is produced 
