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Slalistics. 
i^A) Tills includes all the tributary or dependent states. China 
proper has about 1,2005000 square miles, and,, according; to Sir 
George Staunton^ 333 millions of inhabitants, or 300 to a square 
mile. This great population admitted, it may be said, that one half of 
the %vhole jicofile of the world we inhabit^ obey the Chinese scv/itre. 
(B) Russia, in Europe, contains 1,40'; ,000 square miles, iu” 
habited by about 41 millions of people, or 35 to a square mile-— 
Iheir Asiatic possessions are very thinly populated, vast regions 
being hideous desarts, destitute of fixed inhabitants. The re- 
venues of China and Russia appear very moderate, compared with 
their population. But there is nothing more uncertain tnan the 
idea we commonly hold of money ; its value is as various as any 
thing else. The only way to scale its worth, is by ascertaiiiing 
the quantity of labour it will purchase. In China, for instance, 
from 12 to 15 days labour, may be obtained for the same nominal 
amount thaU a person, at the same business, (be it what it may) 
would earn in the United States in one da)'— -money is, therefore, 
12 or 15 times as valuable in China as' it is here. In Russia it is 
from 8 to 10, for one in the United States. Money is, perhaps, of 
less value with us tlian in any other country, even in the coun- 
tries which produce it, Mexico and Peru. We have an idea of 
a money -.metre^ to shew, by the price of a day^s labour^ the rela- 
tive value of it in various parts of the world. We may form a 
table for this purpose. 
(C) Travellers having agreed that Japan is as populous aa 
China, have estimated its inhabitants at 30 millions ; the apparent 
difference in the table arises, in part, from Tartary being taken 
into the general estimate of the latter country, thus reducing the 
ratio for each square mile ; and in part from the deductions made 
from the surface of the former, for mountaingiis or barren districts* 
(D) France, proper, 148,840 square miles; Holland, the Ne- 
therlands, and the former possessions of several petty German 
princes, 20,000 square miles ; the kingdom of Italy, with Istria, 
Dalmatia, See. about 50,000 square miles ; all which, with Pied- 
mont, Savoy, the former country of Nice, now forming depart- 
ments of France^ make up the aggregate. (See next table. T. C.) 
(E) Before her late wars with France, Austria possessed 
',26,876 square miles : 26,970,030 inhabitants, and a revenue of 
48,244,000 dollars. 
(F) Turkey, in Europe, 9 millions ; in Asia, 10 millions ; and in 
Africa 3 milUons of inhabitants. Immense regions of country ang. 
