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POPULATION. 



vision, vegetables, and fruit ; and considering 

 how little the island in itself produces, and that 

 the supplies are brought from Malacca and the 

 neighbouring islands, are sold at a very cheap 

 rate. The population of the settlement of Singa- 

 pore consists of nearly twenty thousand, exclusive 

 of the troops and convicts, (the troops being about 

 five hundred, and the convicts eight hundred in 

 number,) the majority of which is formed by 

 the Chinese. 



Comparative Statement of the Census taken on the 

 \st Jamiary, 1833. 



Singapore Chronicle, Feb. 7, 1833. 



