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The population of any place or country must be consi 

 def 6(1 as the srroimdwork of all statistical inqiiiry concern 



ing it. We cannot form a correct juc 



any community until we shall have become acquainted 



with the number of human beings of v/iiich it is composed, 



nor until we shall have ascertained many points that indi- 

 cate their condition, not only as they exist at the time of 

 inquiry, but comparatively also with former periods. 

 In the section of this volume which is devoted to geo- 



directions are given tor collectins 



usmo- different Ian^uai'^<^s or 



graphical observations, 



the actual numbers of the population, a branch of inquiry 



which properly falls within the pro^ance both of political 



geography and of statistics. The division of the inhabitants 



of any country into races, 



dialvots, belongs to the first named of the two section?, 



and need be no further noticed here. 



The actual numbers of any population can never be so 

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govenimcnt, and the first inquiries upon the subject 

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