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tj -o ft,: c Up reconciled with the “ refined” calculations, on the scale of this 
nice” and “ delicate” instrument, in the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Bhutan- 
Wm youraUe cSspomle’nt D. favour us with his opinion on the subject? 
September 26th. 
VII. — Census of Benares. 
A careful census of the population of this celebrated city has j ust been 
froi Utah “ appears that the accounts formerly published of .ts magmtude have 
b 1n rh7veaTl y soTf numeration of the houses was taken, from which it was cal- 
cuiated that the population amounted to 600000 : and » ^^toZrNntohof 'these 
„ few vears afterwards, raised this extravagant result to 800000 . in both or tuese 
cases the number of houses seems to have been correctly ascertained, and the eiro 
aT nte rX of inhabitants assumed for each species of house, whichexceeded all 
bounds : thus, for a six storied pukha house, 150, and for a s.ngle kucha house 60 
it appears, on an average of the whole, that six inhabit- 
anteTatiS fL all sorts of houses, whether in the town or the v.c.mty ;and 
this accords pretty well with Mr. Bayley’s published register of the population of 
B Ttmust be remarked, however, that “ house” does not exactly represent “ chouk 
or “ quadrangle,” the expression used in the renter . a „7h™nfhes of l 
consists of several chouks, which are either occupied ) 1 
family or let to different lodgers. tn ho rather 
From a fear of exciting suspicion in a town hitherto considere ” the 
tender of interference and scrutiny, it was not thyught advisable P f 
natives employed to reckon separately the males and females : baton 1 
17 muhullas with a view to determine its accuracy, this point was also effected wi 
nS s^sm'aU^n'ave'rage permits me to draw conclusions, the male and fe- 
, 1- i Thrarp is a disDrooortion of female children, 
“owev7 PU wMch mmt be^ttributed to the reluctance with which the natives mention 
that branch of their family, frequently including the girls under the general term 
previo^to ^Tsolar eclips^^he 1 number ^actually counted was nearly 40,000, and 
eight times greater than Geneva. , t -»x npr cen t since 1800 : there are. 
The number of houses has increased about 1, P~ • , that the num _ 
however, a number of houses m a ruinous con the j^indoo temples. Many 
her of rousjids counted should be ! prec y e insulated, or in the 
of both must, however, have escaped insertion wnere ukj 
outskirts of the town. tradps obtained through the chaodris , 
A check census of the different ca “ d S proportion of Hindoos and 
&c. is now under revision, whence will be louna me p ^ 
Moosulmans, &c- Scientific Gleaner to enter more at large 
It does not fall within the province * ®^™^J e nte d to present our readers 
on a subject of the present nature, and distinguishing those which appertain to 
with the following abstract of the result*, distinguisnin 
the city itself, from those of the European s a ion JS ^ the vicinity , 
Summary. ftl Jgo 18780 
Number of Inhabitants, %o’‘ ? 05 28801 
Number of C hanks or houses, »“ , ij- erSi * 
. , . . +„■> limicpc in European estates* nor tne soldiers 
i This does not include the servants houses l noml iation. 
huts, &c. in the lines j although these are reckoned P P 
