84 Population of the City of Dacca . [March, 
female. Knight has remarked, that the size of the female progenitor greatly 
influences that of the bastard. 
It must be admitted, that the form of certain parts is determined by the male, 
and that of certain other parts by the female ; since the hinnus has greater 
resemblance to the horse in its head, ears, tail, and limbs, and to the ass in the 
other parts of its body ; the mule, on the contrary, has the former parts more 
like those of the ass, whilst the latter are modelled on those of the mare. This 
rule, however, is not without its exceptions ; for example, in a case of bastards, 
produced by the dog and wolf, one was formed exactly like the male, whereas 
the other was compounded of the forms of both its progenitors. 
V . — Population of the City of Dacca. 
The following tables exhibit an abstract of the results of a census of the popu- 
lation of Dacca, made by H. Walters, Esqr. Judge and Magistrate of that place, 
lately presented by him to the Asiatic Society. 
The present enumeration falls very far short of the estimates hitherto made of 
the magnitude of that city, being hardly one-half of the population given by 
Hamilton in his Gazetteer, (150,000,) and less than a quarter of Bishop Heber's 
more vague assertion in 1823, where it is stated to contain 300,000 inhabitants, 
and 90,000 houses. 
In an abstract, published in a former number of Mr. J. Prinsep’s census of 
Benares, for 1829, the same rate of diminution was observed, when the exa^erated 
assumption of former times was brought to the test of actual scrutiny. ‘ No doubt 
a similar rate of reduction would attend every careful enquiry of the sort and 
until the laudable example set by Mr. Walters shall have stimulated other public 
officers to favor us with statistical intelligence, founded on equally just and accu- 
rate foundations, we can form no correct notion of the real magnitude of the cities 
of Hindoostan, un ess, indeed, it be deemed sufficient to curtail, by one-half or two- 
met With hl PUbliCati0nS ° n thiS Apartment of the 
very rapidly since ^ ^ free 
instituted in 1814, was levied upon 21,361 houses and the T ^ 
„ r « , r ’ 1 uouses, and the amount collertpd at an 
average of 2 anna, per house, maintained nearly 800 Police Chowkeedar , -when « 
in the present year, 1830, the number of houses ’ 
to 10,708, and the number of Chowkeedar, maintained^™ “T **- “5 
years, a diminution in the population of about one half\ ^ ^ 
falling off is mainly attributable to the gradual d> ' ™> T be assumed. This 
those beautiful cotton fabricks for which r ccrcase of the manufacture of 
world: previous to 1801, the advances made ^ °” Ce - itho "‘ ^ival in the 
traders, for Dacca muslins, were estimated at 7 ompany, and private 
had fallen down to one half , i„ 1813 T 25 5 * 1807 the7 
and that of the Company was scarcely more (n d ‘"if dM " 0t eXCeed 2 ’ 05 ' 950 ’ 
Commercial Residency was altogether discontT’ d n a " d 1817 0,6 EngliSh 
still continue to be manufactured, though from .T’ ’ C ° m ' Se C ° tt0n piece g00<ls 
cloths, it is not improbable that the native ^ e ^. treme cheapness of English 
superseded ere long. 1 e manut acture will be altogether 
