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the increafing profperity of the inhabitants 
of its vaft dominions. If this immenfe 
increafe of population fhould proceed in 
the fame pro$reffion for ten years, at the 
expiration of that term the number of Ruf- . 
fian fubjeéts will be increafed by five mil- 
lions. 
Another ftriking objeét of the attention 
of a ftatift in politician, is the uncommon- 
ly favourable proportion which the males 
bear to the females, and which feems in- 
tended by nature as the foundation of the 
military grandeur of the Ruffian empire. 
It appears from the above table, that up- 
wards of 23 boys were born to 20 girls; 
while, on the other hand, the deceafe of 
the male: fex exceeded that of the female 
» but by a trifle ; 104 perfons of the former 
having died to 100 of the latter. 
The moft important refult of the above 
table, is the amount of the prefent popu- 
lation of the Ruffian empire, which may 
be inferred from it with a tolerable degree 
of arithmetical retitude. Itis well known, 
that the mortality is in common years 
throughout all the Ruffian dominions, as 
x to 58, by which calculation the number 
of Ruffian fubje&ts of the Grecian church 
would amount at prefent, exclufively of the 
inhabitants of the Eparchy of Bruzlaw, to 
31,339,620 fouls. If to this number be 
added, that of the inhabitants of the new 
pofleffions in Poland, which in 1795 con- 
tained 4,592,544. fouls; and all other Ruf- 
fian fubjects of the various Chriftian fects, 
and of the Jewifh, Laman, and Schaman 
profeffions, who are known to be very nu- 
merous; by a very moderate valuation be 
eftimated only at 5,000,000; the popula- 
tion of the Ruffian empire amounts in the 
whole to upwards of forty millions of fouls. 
Profeffor. Storch, in his excellent, ‘* Hiffo- 
rico ftatiftical picture of the Ruffian empire 
at the end of the eighteenth century,” rates 
the population of the Ruffian dominions in 
the whele at 36 millions of fouls. But he 
was not in pofleffion of the exaét popula- 
tion-table, which we have here given; 
and, of confequence, not correctly intormed 
of the enormous increafe of the vait popu- 
lation of the Rufiian empire. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
A PEDESTRIAN EXCURSION THROUGH 
SEVERAL PARTS OF ENGLAND AND 
WALES, DURING THE SUMMER OF 
1797+ (Continued from Page 18.) 
ROM Wilton houfe we crofled the 
! country to Old Sarum, and amutfed our 
felves with tracing over its mounds and 
Pedefirian Excurfion through England and Wales. [April 1, 
trenches till eight o’clock. Our intention 
was to have flept at the public houfe, 
which is the only tenement in the neigh- 
bourhood of this venerable borough: of 
the borough itfelf about half a cartload 
of ftones, in two feparate heaps, where 
the caftle once ftood, and the old {preadin 
oak under which the reprefentatives of 
thefe ftones are chofen and returned to par- 
liament, are all that remains. In our 
hopes of lodging we were, however, dif- 
appointed. This houfe furnifhes no ac- 
commodation for travellers ; and we were 
left to the alternative of returning to Sa- 
lifbury, or proceeding, ftrangers and be- 
nighted as we were, feven tracklefs miles 
acrofs Salifbury plain to Amefbury. We 
preferred the latter; and having devoted 
another half hour to refrefhment and to 
a fubterraneous cavern, lately difcovered, 
in the principal fofs, we fet off at half paft 
eight for the place of our deftination. 
There are feafons when, to ome minds, at 
leat, it is pleafant to toy with danger. 
Such was our prefent humour. We had 
heard difmal tales of people being loft and 
famifhed on Salifbury plain; the moon 
promifed us but little light; and we had 
not proceeded above a mile before the 
road appeared to be loft in inextricable 
labyrinths. The direéting-pofts were 
broken off or defaced; and if we deviated 
from the track, houfe or human being to 
fet us right was no where to be expected : 
yet our animal fpirits were uncommonly 
high; and the merrieft part of our journey 
was certainly the walk from Old Sarum to 
Amefoury. In the language of fupertti- 
tion, the omen was fair; and the event 
was equally propitious. We arrived in 
fafety at a little after ten, and took up our 
quarters at.a homely inn ;—-the beft, how~ 
ever, we could find in the town. 
Our hoft was tolerably communicative,’ 
but not much informed. He had an abject 
pliancy of deportment, a fort of *¢ alacrity 
at booime,” an affectation of great humi- 
lity, and was fuperlatively affiduous in 
his attentions. In fhort, his countenance 
and deportment were equally repulfive. 
A fort of fullen felfifhnefs faddened his 
brow; and, through the flimfy veil of his 
fawning obfequjoufpels and infidious com- 
plaifance, ill-humour and {elf-opiniated 
obftinacy were fufficiently, confpicuous. 
From the whole of his behaviour we pre- 
fently anticipated what the morning con- 
firmed, that his awkward courtefies were 
not to be forgotten in the bill. 
Tuefday 4. Amefbury is pleafantly fi- 
tuated in a f{imall irriguous valley, on the 
i 3 banks 
