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affording accommodation to about 6,600 scholars. The whole 

 number of schools in France is said to be upwards of 1,000, of 

 which 360 are included in M. Jarnard's report ; of these 45 

 are instituted for girls, and the whole of them might instruct 

 40,600 scholars, or about 1 1 5 per school. On July 1 , 1 8 1 8 , there 

 were under instruction 19,175 children. There is also another 

 description of schools, established by the " Brethren of tlie 

 Christian Faith." These, in the course of three years, have in- 

 creased from 60 to 142 ; and in the year 1818, they had 25,000 

 pupils. 



5. Comparative Strength of Europeans and Savages. — M. 

 Peron, the naturalist, has had occasion to observe, that men in 

 a savage state are inferior in strength to men civilized ; and has 

 demonstrated in an evident manner, that the improvement of 

 social order does not, as some have pretended, diminish our 

 physical powers. The following are the results of some ex- 

 periments made with the dynamometer of M. Regnier, 



Force with hands, with traces. 



rOf Diemen's Land . . 50.6 0.0 



Savages . .< — New Holland 51.8 .... 14.8 



I— Timor 58.7 .... 16.2 



fFrench 69.2 22.1 



Europeans < ,, ,. , 



^ iLnghsh 71.4 23.8 



6. State of the Population of Paris for 1818. 



BIRTHS. 



jlegitimate..{^oy^ ^^ ^;?J?} 14,499 



•\megit.mate {^^«^: - lf,l] 4,20^ 



legitimate.. {boyj ;.;; 265J ^^^ 



i*"^^'^-- j^nS :::: ISIl 3,888 



ToUl of births . .P«f • • • •JJ'^f;}23 067 

 (.girls ....ll,315j '""' 



facknowledgedjVys •"• ^'^^^T 



Natural Children . ° jp'^ •••• 935 1 



abandoned., jb^f ••.• ^^ '^ 

 *- igirls .... J,019j 



At home 



At the hospitals 



