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districts no returns were made, we assume an average for such districts, it will be necessary 

 I'm -i In T to increase the province of Atacama 3,760, Santiago 66,121, Colchagua 65,137, and 

 Talcs 11,638, making a gross aggregate of 1,393,125 souls. 



Tin- vnMis..f I-:; r that year, 1,010,336; tin -litor of the "Repertorio Chileno," 



in which it is published, remarking, that as the people could not be convinced that the object 

 of their enumeration was not for the imposition of a new tax or to levy recruits, quite ten per 

 cent, absented themselves on the visits of the commissioners, and therefore this proportion 

 should bo added to their returns. Adopting his conclusion, the population in 1832 was 

 1,111,370 souls ; since which time, according to the census of 1848, the annual increase has 

 been 17,610. But, by the ratios derived from the census last referred to, the number of births 

 at the close of 1832 should have been 44,455, and of deaths 23,154 ; leaving the yearly aug- 

 mentation 21,301 very nearly what it was sixteen years later! These are the only general 

 statistics of population. Subsequent returns have been made of individual provinces, and pro- 

 vincial bills of mortality are published quite regularly. 



The statistics do not include the tribes of independent Indians, whose numbers are unknown, 

 but have been estimated at from 20,000 to 25,000 souls.* 



A census wu completed after writing the above. In publishing the retain (October 21, 1854), the "Mtrcwrio" of Valparaiso 

 minute ccruiiny of the detail! in the Statistical Office may possibly alter the following numbers slightly : 



