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INDEX. 



i. 531 — America a practical instance 

 of the agricultural system in a state 

 the most favourable to the condition 

 of the labouring classes, ii. 114. 121. 

 125 — 3'et their general condition not 

 proportioned to the quantity of food 

 they earn, 122. — See also the article 

 Indians. 



Ancient or modern nations, question of 

 the superior populousness of, L 253 

 —257. 



Andaman Islanders, state of with respect 

 to the checks to population ; scarcity 

 of food, i. 26. 



Anderson Mr.; his erroneous proposi- 

 tion, that every increase of popula- 

 tion tends to increase relative plenty, 

 and vice versi, ii. 236, 237, note. 



Arabia Felix, practice and effect of 

 polygamy in, i. 153. 



Arabs. See the article Bedouieens. 



Ardour, want of, in savages, generated 

 by the hardships and dangers of sa- 

 vage life, i. 37. 



Aristotle saw clearly the strong tendency 

 of population to increase beyond the 

 means of subsistence ; methods pro- 

 posed by him to repress its redun- 

 <lance, i. 237. 239, 240 — limiting the 

 age of marriage, the number of 

 children born, and the period of pro- 

 creating, 237 — his further observa- 

 tions on the necessity of regulating 

 the number of children, 238, 239 — 

 points out an error in the measures 

 taken to increase the population of 

 Sparta, 240. 



Arts and manufactures necessary in 

 countries where the properties in 

 land are large, i. 231. 



Asia, checks to population among the 

 modern pastoral tribes of (See the 

 article Tartars), i. 120 — enumeration 

 of checks, 143. 



Au.gsburgh, proportion of its annual 

 marriages to its population, at diffe- 

 rent periods, i. 325. 



B. 



Banks ; the increased circulating me- 

 dium wanted during the late scarcity, 

 supplied principally by the paper 

 of the country banks, ii. 73 — this 

 increased issue of paper rather a 

 consequence than a cause of the high 

 price of provisions, 74 — much better 

 that the issue should have come 

 from the country banks than the 

 Eank of England, 75 — great advan- 

 tage may be derived in improving 



the condition of the poor, from the 

 establishment of saving-banks, in 

 which they might put their savings 

 out to interest, 407 — 410. 



Baptisms, unentered, increased rate of, 

 i. 445. 



Barbadoes, Iiardships experienced in 

 the first settlement of the English 

 colony there, ii. 51. 



Barbarism, e.vtreme, of the inhabitants 

 of Terra del Fuego and Van Die- 

 men's Land, i. 25. 



Bedoweens, state of with respect to the 

 checks to population among them, i. 

 123. 128.130. 



Beggars, multitude of, in Tibet, i. 204 

 — the relief given to common beggars 

 often does not deserve the name of 

 charity, ii. 366. 



Benefit clubs; plan of improving the 

 condition of the poor by the com- 

 pulsory and universal establishment 

 of, considered, ii. 375. 



Berlin, proportion of its annual mar- 

 riages to its population, i. 327. 



Berne, proofs of the powerful operation 

 of the preventive check to popula- 

 tion in the town and canton of, i. 

 353. 



Births, proportion of, to deaths in Nor- 

 way, i. 274 — in different parts of 

 Russia, 299, 300 — in England and 

 Wales, 411. 425. 427. 528— in 

 France, 384. 386. 392 — in a North 

 American state, 529 — annual average 

 and proportion of, in Sweden, 296, 

 297 — proportion of,to the population 

 of England and Wales, 415 — causes 

 which affect the proportion of births 

 to weddings, 488, 489, note — pro- 

 portion of to the whole population 

 in Russia, 303, 304. 318 — in France, 

 before and during the revolution, 

 371 et seq. and note — in some parts 

 of Scotland affected by years of scar- 

 city and plenty, 468 — in England and 

 Wales, 411 — in different places of 

 the middle parts of Europe, 330. 

 etseq. — births in the Greek church iu 

 Russia for the year 1799, 317— from 

 1806 to 1820, 318— a greater mor- 

 tality naturally produces a greater 

 proportion of births, 341. — See also 

 the articles Fruitfulness and Registers. 



(1825) of England, omissions in 



the registers, i. 445 — observations 

 on the diminished proportions of 

 births and marriages to the whole 

 population, 444 — 448 — varying pro- 

 portion of births stated, 448. 



