804 report — 1884. 



frontier of India, partly traversed before by the French Fathers Hue and Gabet, by 

 Manning and Bogle, Turner, Nain Singh and Prejevalski. Besides this the explorer 

 Krishna has penetrated into new regions, of which our only ideas were derived 

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

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

 the orders 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 a 

 remarkable degree confirmed these Tibetan surveys, allowing some little differences 

 easily recognised. In the present case the explorer A. K, as he is designated, has 

 struck an entirely new path with the most instructive and valuable results. Leaving 

 Prejevalski's route at a point near the sources of the Hoang-ho, he struck a river 

 which, on placing a reduction of his work upon a reduction of the Lama survey on 

 the same projection and scale, falls exactly, without any exaggeration, upon the 

 course of the Murus Usu, or upper waters of the great river Yang-tse-Kiang. 

 Nevertheless, the conclusions adopted in Calcutta make this river to be the Yalung, 

 one of the great affluents of the Yang-tse-Kiang. But it would be inconsistent 

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

 with which this journey abounds. 



2. The First General Census of India. By Trelawney Saunders. 



The first census that has been made for all India was taken on February 17, 

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

 of those volumes extends to three volumes folio. The author commences with 

 a very brief description of the Provinces and States which form the Empire 

 of British India. The entire population enumerated on February 17, 1881, is 

 253,891,821. The area occupied by this large population is 1,382,624 square 

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

 report, between various parts of this large population and other countries of the 

 world — chiefly European. As the occupied Indian house forms, as elsewhere, one 

 of the bases of the return, the nature of the Indian house, especially in so far as it 

 is distinguished from dwellings elsewhere, is described ; the ordinary character of 

 the furniture, the family arrangements, not only on European evidence, but on the 

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

 to the nature of this vast work to refer to the headings of the tables comprehended 

 in the returns: — 



1. Area of Population. 9. Birth-places. 



2. Movement of Population. 10. Education. 



3. Religious Classification. 11. Insanity. 



4. Proportions of Sexes and Religious 12. Blind People. 



Divisions. 13. Deaf Mutes. 



5. Condition of Population. 14. Lepers. 



6. Condition and Age of Population 15 and 16. Towns and Villages. 



by Religion and Province. 17. Castes. 



7. Ages by Religion and Province. 18. Occupations. 



8. Languages. 



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

 -with information of the most interesting character concerning this grand division 

 of the world, which stands second only in numbers to its still vaster neighbour the 

 Empire of China. 



The author intimated that he had received the instructions of the Secretary of 

 State 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. It 

 may be useful to add that a statistical abstract relating to British India is printed 

 annually, by command of Her Majesty the Queen, by Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode 

 in London, 



