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in France # for instance, the number of inhabit- 

 ants to the square league^ calculated by sepa- 

 rate departments, is generally only a thirds 

 more or less, than the relative population of the 

 sum of all the departments. Even in Spain^ 

 the oscillations from the average number rise^ 

 with a few exceptions, only from the half to the 

 double^. In America, on the contrary^ it is 

 only in the Atlantic states, from South Carolina 

 to New Hampshire, that the population begins 

 to spread itself with some uniformity. In that 

 most civilized portion of the New World, form 

 ISO to 900 inhabitants are reckoned to the 

 square league, while the relative population 01 all 



* The superficial extent of France, not comprehending 

 Corsica, was estimated by the direction of the Cadastre, in 

 1817, at 51,910,062 hectares, or 5190 square myriameters, 

 or 26,278 square leagues, 25 to a degree. M. Coquebert de 

 Montbret reckons 442 square leagues for Corsica 5 conse- 

 quently France with Corsica now contains 26,720 common 

 square leagues, or 17,101 square leagues (20 to a degree). 

 The population in 1820, having been 30,407,907, we find 

 1778 inhabitants to every square marine league. The average 

 extent of a department of France is 198 square marine 

 leagues ; the mean population is 353,600. The number of 

 inhabitants to the square league is, in most of the depart- 

 ments, 1000, 1200, 2400, and 2600. In taking the average 

 of the five most and least peopled departments and govern- 

 ments of France and Russia, we obtain the proportion of the 

 minimum and maximum of the relative population ; in the 

 former of these countries g& 1 : 3,7 ; in the latter = 1 : 12,2. 



f Antillon, Geogrqfia, p. 141. 



