300 Of the Checks to Population Bk. ii. 



Kostroma 20—10 



Archangel 13 — 10 



Tobolsk 21 — 10 



Town of Tobolsk 13 — 10 



Reval 11 — 10 



Vologda 12 — 10 



Some of these proportions it will be observed 

 are extraordinarily high. In Veronesch, for in- 

 stance, the births are to the deaths nearly as 

 3 to 1, which is as great a proportion, I believe, 

 as ever was known in America. The average 

 result however of these proportions has been, in 

 some degree, confirmed by subsequent observa- 

 tions. Mr. Tooke, in his View of the Russian 

 Empire, makes the general proportion of births 

 to burials throughout the whole country, as 225 

 to 100,* which is 2\ to 1; and this proportion is 

 taken from the lists of 1793-t 



From the number of yearly marriages, and 

 yearly births, M. Herman draws the following 

 conclusions : 



Children. 



In Petersburg one marriage yields .... 4 

 In the government of Moscow about ... 3 



Tver 3 



Novogorod 3 



Pskovsk 3 



Resan 3 



Veronesch 4 



* Vol. ii. b. iii. p. 162. 

 t Id. p. 145. 



