STATISTICS. 



VI. Each flare confifts of country and inha- 

 bitants. Under the title of country, ftatiflics 

 ton ,Js, 



3. The extent of territory in a date, its lo- 

 cal fuuation, tne rivers by which it is watered, 



v/afhes its coafts, its borders its 

 n;ou: ..nd natural [.'reductions. It inq 



ot its capital, or the feat 

 vernment, its exterior pofieflions, an. 

 ally its colonies, in the other parts of 

 world, &c. 



4. With regard to the inhabitants , it inquires 

 into their number and qualities: and i-.j this 

 purpole it makes, by the aid of political j.nth- 



nrths and Dunuls, 

 >orare anu accurate reic 

 Jiblc, into r. : LT or the inhabitants or" a 



ftatc, and into their genius ; the prevailing cha- 

 racter, the mduftry, the virtues and vices of a 

 nati 



VII. 5. It next confiders the inhabitants un- 

 der ihc quality o united by laws for 

 their common interell , and in this light, the 

 i himfelf is nothing more than the firft 

 citizen. And here it direds its views to two 

 : objects, which are i. all that relates 

 nftitudon of a iti 2. all that 

 . rangement of its puhl ; c airairs. 

 ,es, the; hat arc 



.^es and cuftoms received in a coun- 



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