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The Statistics of Nice Maritime. lit/ Col. Sykes, T.R.S. 
The author gives a rapid analysis of the ancient and modern history of Nice, 
i its physical and geological features,—of its botany, and zoology in their various 
touches; pointing out such products as arc of (Economical application*. I he 
Mcnulogy from four daily observations is elaborately treated in considering its 
'isii'ni lo local diseases and the public health; in consequence also of ib having 
tropical features, v, bich ten years’ observations at Gem i give in .1 1 
Mrtcdlhrin. In connexion with the meteorology, the official Hospital Returns of 
>Svdinian Government show that diseases of the respiratory organs at Nice, 
^.ioa, anil Turin, in frequency and fatality, equal those of Great Biitaio,—-but 
’'t inflammatory action of the bowels i* also a characteristic of the country. T he 
• 'or diows the mortality in the Civil, Military, and Foundling Hospitals. 
" Ic population of Nice is stated to have increased from 27,000 in 1823 to 99,811 
u 1 which rose to 36,804 in I84S. Old person! appear to have diminished in 
llt -WMind young persons to have increased. From the local returns there would 
^' nr to V about one marriage to 123 souls, one birth to 28 souls, and one death 
•'•IM souls in the town, and one death to 30*9 souls in the rural districts. The 
(.jt •« , -n- •»“- agency ui me unrmii-iiic \i icmu/ «n« **■'- -■- 
L , ‘i ’‘ li t vc promulgated seventy-four octavo pages of regulations for the 
'. -1 , |,u!icc and the interior administration of the town, some of which 
iy ! nJ [ a,to Jf 1 ' vit h advantage by the towns of states in a higher position than 
r nreV , uudlor S ive3 the budget of receipts and disbursements. In the 
• lie m £ lun ' :s promotion of education and the fine urts, highly creditable 
j t Jnca?!n C, ?^o^* military defences, the medical establishments, the state 
•-'dmont s a ® ar dioia, the learned professions at Nice, the newspaper press in 
respjft to’ th occ * C£ ‘ nsl ‘ ca * establishments arc noticed it 
Sn succession. 
With 
Tries from r umotmt of instruction in the Sardinian states, the capacity to read 
" from 1 f p6r , cent * a t Nuovo in the Isle of Sardinia to 4 per cent, at Turin, 
*. . * tCfflmA In f\ Vt ■ •rl 1 .4 t’ . .II.. 1., t,. 0*1 m I 1 1 rv Ini 11.I *»f* 
# - *"• 111 u.t* itm: ui uuiuiim* * .... • 
'’-•nency *Th u* ). n , a hundred at Sasaari in Sardinia to 22 in the hundred at 
nit Jf . v ^ .^Sardinian states have four times the proportion of bishops to France. 
;ium; M times the proportion of Canons to 
im. 
'• tUVcn fin, ,1 1 ftiavL* iiji 
W andraV hc Portion of Belgium ; 1 
faeaninl’a J h tl ! ne . 8 Ul ® proportion to Belgium. 
J/ " ,J * havlhn-f u 18 6l ‘" Un ^ ur| ed at Nice in consecrated ground, in consequence 
1 -t, and th la * ot i **be sacrament in dying. Nice sends two members to I'arlia- 
l?pp. 10 re Presentative system of l’iedmont has that of Great Britain for its 
' ^ [iricij'b'f lvc , s a hst of prices comparing 1841 with 1854, in which it is shown 
*' ' ite in the vance( l. It is stated that 777 families of 14 nationalities w intered 
«y, WpijrV*-' ,D H r 1852-53, and the paper concludes with an account of the 
?'!‘ Cr •'U'guea ifu- mcasures » which are of the French decimal systems, and the 
in ‘l prejudir a s - V3tL-ln could have been accepted by a comparatively igno- 
Jl " ,ar attempt in Engi^j* " KIC wou * d lje bttle difficulty "in ensuring success in a 
Tkt p 
uence thereon of 
SS Uni ^ ^ ircc tion of British Exports, and the I»jl 
■* tec J 'rude llUll finh! Tin If V VI I • V 
the 
-a,h 3 “^knts; kingdom llicre are 121 families, 2231 species, and 151 
f in'iL * C ' 1 w 'Hi its nalriij n 1 *® Rlvcn ’he principal genera n:ul species. 212 species of 
*' ,. e ll P the iiqmke, . nume *. arc n,<il w i*1‘ between Genoa and Nice, and freshwater 
iJ^tUwar* i;, w .' r! - ’■ Matlj °f H»® molloaca are highly prixed 
1884 . llan,es * The nu« , ,rds are numerous, amounting to 343 species, these having 
mammals are those common to Central Europe. 
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