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For the Monthly Magazine. 
STATISTICAL NOTICES — to Hot- 
LAND.* 
N 1515 the province of Holland con- 
tained 45,000 houses; in 17582, 
163,462. The number of persons amount- 
ed to 980,000, of whom two-thirds lived 
m cities and tows, and the other third 
in the flat countries. ‘The estimate made 
by order of the National Assembly 1 in 
1796, gave the following numbers, viz. 
Guelderland, inthetowns - 64,994 
in the flat countries 152,834 
217,828 
THiclland, in towns - - 495,017 
in the flat countries 333,025 
828,542 
Zealand, in towns hte eS 
in the flat countries 42,234. 
$2,212 
Utrecht, in towns - - 45,204 
in the flat countries 47,600 
92,904. 
Friesland, intowns - - 44,824 
in the flat countries 116,689 
161,513 
Overyssel, in the towns - 41,805 
in the flat countries 93,255 
135,060 
Groningen, 1 in the towns - 23,770 
in the flatcountries 90,785 
- ‘ Rus 
114,555 
The country of Drent,in tewns 5,789 
o in the fat countries 33,883 
39,672 
Dutch Brabant, in thetowns 48,711 
in the flat countries 159,466 
208,177 
The total i is 810,192 in towns, ond 
1,070,271 in the flat countries, making 
* These particulars are extracted from a 
Dutch publication of 1804, by R. Meteler- 
kamp. - 
Statistical Notices relating to Holland. 
[Nov. ky 
the entire population of the Batavian 
Republic in the year 1796, 1,880,463 
individuals, 
The population of the province of 
Holland alone, as above stated, in 1732, 
was 930,000, and in 1796 it was 828,542, 
which leaves a decrease of 151,458 persons, 
equal to one thirteeuth of the whole popu-~ 
lation, and which decrease runs in a still 
greater proportion if the whole country 
be included. 
From the amount of the taxes in the 
province of Holland, it is known that 
that province pays 625 ‘; per cent. of im- 
posts on its entire property ; and estimat-~ 
ing the other provinces by similar data, 
the amount of the national capital, before 
the war, might be taken at 2,151,026,700 . 
florins. In 1798 it appears to have di- 
nunished in value about a thousand mil- 
hon of florins, and in 1800 the entire ca- 
pital was accurately estimated at no more 
than 1,086,181,264 florins. This enor- 
mous decrease, amounting to about one 
half in the commercial value of the whole 
nation, and which is founded on the re- 
sults of the taxes on property during se- 
veral years, can only have arisen from 
the people having concealed their real 
property, or transpor ted it to other coun- 
tries. 
Before the war, the fisheries occupied 
and supported twenty thousand families, 
or about one-eighteenth of the whole po- 
pulation, and produced an annual in- 
coime to the country of fifteen millions of 
florms. The net produce of the whale 
fishery alone was estimated at two mil- 
lions of florins. 
With respect to the agricultural pro- 
ducts of this country, no satisfactory data 
can be found on which to establish accu- 
rate conclusions. ‘The number of horned 
cattle is the only fact that can be pro- 
perly ascertained; it amounts to 902,526, 
of which 252,394. are under two years of 
age. The decrease in horses, sheep, and 
swine, 1S so great, that the best informed 
persons in Holland do not think it pru- 
dent to give any statement of the num- 
ber. The quantity of cheese also cannot 
be ascertained ; in North Holland about 
eighteen millions of pounds were sold in 
1901, and at Gouda, in 1803, about two 
millions were sold. The quantity of 
grain produced is, however, far from be- 
ing sufficient to support the population, 
even in its present decline. There are 
74,000 lasts annually used in the distille- 
_ries, and 20,000 in the breweries, and 
powder and starch manufactories, Yet, 
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