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The population of England, according to the enumeration 

 of 1377, was 2,300,000. The city of London then con- 

 tained only 35,000. (Lowe, Present State of England, 

 Ap. p. 3). The following is, according to Mr. Cleveland, 

 the increase of the population of Great Britain within twenty- 

 years : in 1801, the population amounted to 10,942,642 ; in 

 1811, to 12,596,803 ; and in 1821, to 14,353,800. In 

 estimating the population of the Russian empire with Poland, 

 at 54 millions, I reckoned 2 millions for the Asiatic part 

 only. Official statements (Petersbuger Zeitschrift, June, 

 1823, p. 294), give 1,606,195 to Siberia j namely, Tobolski, 

 572,471 j Tomsk, 340,000 j Jeniseisk, 135,000 ; Irkutsk, 

 400,500 5 Jakutsk, 147,015 ; Ochotsk, 6,703, and Kamt- 

 schatka, 4,506 ; I add for the parts situated on the east of the 

 Oural Mountains, that is, for | of the government of Perm, 

 \ of the government of Orembourg, and the Kirgises, 

 1,606,195 inhabitants ; Siberia, properly so called, 450,000 

 inhabitants. 



According to the great imperial geographical map of China, 

 the number of taxable persons amounted in 1790, to 143 

 millions. M. de Klaproth, thinks that 700,000 may be 

 added for the army, and the persons exempted from tax- 

 ation j so that China, properly so called, probably contains 

 150 millions. For Tartary, 6 millions may be reckoned 

 (with the exception of Thibet and Corea.) 



Note C. 



Whatever relates to the remains of the native population 

 having a great interest for the friends of humanity, I shall 

 here mark : 1st, the state of the missions of the fathers of 

 the Observance of Saint Francis, in the province of Barcelona, 

 missions that are vulgarly called of Piritu, and dependant on 

 the college of the Purissima Concepcion de Propaganda Fide 

 at Nueva Barcelona j (See above, Vol. vi, p. 8, &c.) 2d. The 



