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frontiorof India, partly travorsnd before ))y the French Fathers Hue and Gabet Ly 

 ManninfT and Itogle, Turner, Nain Singh n.ud Prejevalski. Ik'sides this the explorer 

 Krishna has penetrated into new regions, of which our only ideas wt.Te derived 

 from d'Anville's ' Atlas de la Chine,' containing the maps of Tibet derived frnrti 

 the surveys of Lama priests, made in continuation of the great Jesuit work under 

 the ordera of the famous Emperor Kuenlun. It has been all along a most interest- 

 ing feature of the researches of our native explorers in Tibet that they have in ii 

 remarkable degree contirmi;d these Tibetan surveys, allowing some little differences 

 easily recognised. In the pri'sent case the explorer A. K., as he is designated has 

 struck an entirely new path with the most instructive and valuable results. Lt^avin:: 

 Pr^jevalski's route at a point near the sources of the lloang-lio, he struck a river 

 which, on placing a reduction of his work u])on a reducticjii of the Lama survey mi 

 the samo projection and scale, falls exactly, without any exaggeration, upon tin- 

 course of the Jlurus U.-.U, or upper waters of the great river Yang-tse-Kian<r. 

 Nevertheless, the conclusions adopted in Calcutta make this river to be the Yaluii'f, 

 one of the great aflluents of thi Yang-tse-Kiang. But it would be inconsistfin 

 with the limits of an abstract to liter upon further details of the greatest interest 

 with which tiiis journey abounds. 



2. 7 he First General Gen.<us of India. By Tijelawxey Saunders. 



The first census that has been made for all India was taken on Februarv IT, 

 1881. It is embodied in about twenty folio volumes, and the general aWtrac! 

 of those volumes extends to three volumes folio. The author comnienei's witli 

 a very brief description of th" Provinces and States which form the l^mpi:.' 

 of British India. The entire population enumerated on February 17, 1?'><], i- 

 25'5,891,8iil. The area occupied by this large jjopulation is 1,382,024 square 

 miles. The paper then proceeds to draw a comparison, extracted from the general 

 report, between various parts of tliis large population and other couutni>s of tl: 

 world — chiefly luiropean. As the occupied Indian house forms, as elsewhere, m; • 

 of the bafes of the return, the nature of^ the Indian house, especially in so far as i; 

 is distinguished from dwellings elsewhere, is described ; the ordinary character i f 

 the furniture, the family arrangements, not only on European evidence, hut on tlr 

 evidence of a distinguished native as well, is entered upon. It is only doing justii- 

 to the nature of this vast work to refer to the headings of the tables "conipreher.ded 

 in the returns: — 



1. Area of Population. 



2. Movement of Population. 



3. IJeligious Classification. 



4. Proportions of Sexes and Religious 



Divisions. 



5. Condition of Population. 



6. Condition and Age of Population 



by Religic.i and Province. 



7. Ag'os by Religion and Province. 



8. Lanafuages. 



9. Birth-places. 



10. J'^ducation. 



11. Insanity. 



12. Blind People. 



13. De Tutes. 



14. Lepers. 



1') and 10. Towns and Villages 



17. Castes. 



18. Occupations. 



The reports in general are not merely a dry record of figures. They abound 

 wi 'i infoimation of the most interesting character concerning this grand divisimi 

 of the world, which stands second only in num'' '>rs to its still vaster neighbour tli" 

 lunpire of China. 



The author intimated that he had received the instructions of the Secretai.» "f 

 Stu.e for India to present to one of the public libraries of the City of Montreal a 

 copy of this 'General Report of the Census of India' in three volumes folio. Ii 

 may be useful to add that a statistical abstract relating to Brili.-ih India is print-"! 

 annually, by command of Her Majcst" the Queen, by Messrs. Eyre &. SpottiswouJe 

 in London, 



