NUMBERS. 
371 
Upon this subject Captain Grey remarks, vol. ii. 
p. 246, “ I have found the number of inhabitants to 
a square mile to vary so much from district to dis- 
trict, from season to season, and to depend upon so 
great a variety of local circumstances, that I am 
unable to give any computation which I believe 
would even nearly approach to truth.” 
Mr. Moorhouse, who has also paid much atten- 
tion to this subject, in the neighbourhood of 
Adelaide, has arrived at the conclusion, that, in 
1843, there were about sixteen hundred aborigines, 
in regular or irregular contact with the Europeans, 
in the province of South Australia ; these he has 
classed as follows, viz. : — 
In regular contact with Europeans, 
Adelaide district 
300 
Encounter Bay 
230 
Moorunde 
300 
Port Lincoln 
60 
Hutt River 
30 
920 
In irregular contact with Europeans, 
Adelaide 
Encounter Bay 
100 
Moorunde 
200 
Port Lincoln 
340 
Hutt River 
40 
680 
or together about 1600. 
Taking in the southern districts of 
South Aus- 
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