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have been roughly about 5,000,000. The area of the 

 famine tract he guesses to have been from 20,000 to 

 25,000 square miles, and he doubts whether the general 

 mortality could have been less than 800,000. But we 

 have no means of ascertaining whether these figures 

 are even approximations to the truth. 



