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the state of the home as well as of foreign markets, 

 clogged with duties, does not remunerate any extra- 

 ordinary outlay in artificial means, excepting where the 

 density of the population ensures a sale for the increased 

 production. The plain at the mouth of the Neckar, be- 

 tween Weinheim, Heidelberg, Leimen, and the Rhine, 

 is even more populous than Rhinehessen on the left 

 Rhine-bank. On a space equal to 90 square English 

 miles, Professor Ran in 1830 estimated there were 73,000 

 inhabitants. At present there are not fewer than 80,000, 

 or 900 to the English square mile. It will, therefore, 

 excite no surprise that the subdivision of the soil is very 

 great. The same author, in his interesting treatise on 

 the agriculture of this district, gives the following as the 

 division of landed property : — 



Size of estates. In TTamlschuhsheim. In Xeuenheim. 



I\o. of landowners. No. of landowners. 



More than 20 morjrcns 12 5 



From . 1.5 to 20 7 1 



10 to 12 13 1 



„ 5 13 10 41 3 



„ 3 to .5 34 1 



1 to 3 108 37 



Less than 1 1G3 73 



The 378 landowners in Handschuhsheim held estates 

 of the following dimensions : — 



12 large estates, making together 504 morgens. 

 7 estates from 15 to 20 morgens 121 „ 



