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Rh course, shown by the archæological maps. In a rough way, subject to the limitations previously mentioned, it can be found that the following fourteen states contain evidences of having held the heaviest ancient populations:

Now, by our last census the states which contain the largest population today are:

Thus of the fourteen most thickly populated states today perhaps twelve give fair evidence of having been most thickly popu-