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 AREA AND TOri'LATION.

11

Departments

Number of

arrondisse-

ments

Number of cantons

Number of communes

Population

Moselle ....

4

27

629

452,157

Nievre

4

25

312

342,773

Nord

7

60

660

1,392,041

Oise ....

4

35

700

401,274

Orne

4

36

510

414,618

Pas-de-Calais.

6

43

• 903

749,777

Puy-de-D6me

5

50

444

571,690

Pyrenees (Basses-).

5

40

559

435,486

Pyrenees (Hautes-)

3

26

480

240,252

Py re n ees- Orientales

3

17

231

189,490

Khin (Bas-)

4

33

541

588,970

Khin (Haut-).

3

30

490

530,285

Rhone

2

28

259

678,648

Saone (Haute-).

3

28

583

317,706

Saone-et-Loire.

5

48

585

600,006

Sarthe

4

33

386

463,619

Savoie

4

29

326

271,663

Savoie (Haute-)

4

28

310

273,768

Seine

3

28

71

2,150,916

Seine-Inferieure

5

51

756

792,768

Seme-et-Marne.

5

29

528

354,400

Seiue-et-Oise

6

36

684

533,727

Sevres (Deux-).

4

31

356

333,155

Somme

5

41

833

572,640

Tarn

4

35

316

355,513

Tarn-et-Garonne

3

24

194

228,969

Var.

3

27

144

308,550

Vaucluse.

4

22

149

266,091

Vendee

3

30

298

404,473

Vienne

5

31

296

324,527

Vienne (Haute-)

4

27

200

326,037

Vosges

5

30

548

418,998

Yonne

Total.

5

37

483

372,589

373

2,941

37,548

38,067,094

The increase of population in France within the last century and a half has been comparatively less than in any other State of Western Europe, as exhibited in the following table. It must be remarked, however, that the numbers given under the first four periods are not the result of actual enumerations, but of official calculations, more or less uncertain. The population of 1700, when Corsica and the provinces of Lorraine, and Venaissin, or Avignon, did not belong to France, was made up after returns of the royal comptroller of finances, and is, probably, the least trustworthy ; the counting of 1762 was undertaken with more accuracy, and is believed to be tolerably correct, as well as that