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FOREIGN OFFICE REPORTS. 



[June 189G. 



1 * It is incidentally mentioned that, as in many other countries, 

 the population of the industrial district increases, while that of 

 the agricultural districts tends to decrease. 



As regards the trade of the country, it seems that Switzerland 

 draws every year from foreign countries half of what its popu- 

 lation require for their support, and, on the other hand, about 

 one-third of its produce is exported. 



[Foreign Office Report, Miscellaneous Series, JVo. 394. Price 



