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Rh, as has already been pointed out, has never yet been brought under the rule of civil authority. A census, however, taken in 1879 and officially published in the "Annales del Ministerio de Fomento" reported the population as 9,908,011;* but by some

* Table showing the Population and Area in Square Miles of each of the States of Mexico, according to the Census of 1879.