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harbour, is 600 feet long and 400 wide; the second sluice, imme-' diately behind, as long and as wide as the first. Then follows a canal 3,600 feet long, varying in width from 260 to 108 feet, and having about halfway another harbour for dredging-steamers and similar craft. This leads to the port proper, consisting of a basin 1,200 feet • long and 750 wide, with a smaller basin for boats. At the back of the principal harbour there are two shipyards for the construction of iron-cased frigates of the largest size, and all the other parts of a ■ naval establishment. The total cost of construction of Willi elmshaven was 1,500,000/. (Communication of the Royal Prussian Govern- ment to the Statesman's Year-book.}

Area and Population.

The following table gives the area and population of the various States of Germany, according to the census of December 3, 1867 : —

States

Area, English sq. miles

Population

1. Prussia .....

137,066

24,043,902

2. Bavaria

29,347

4,824,421

3. Wiirtemberg

7,675

1,778,479

4. Saxony. .

6,777

2,423,586

5. Baden.

5,851

1,434,970

6. Mecklenburg-Schwerin

4,834

560,618

7. Hesse.

2,866

823,138

8. Oldenburg.

2,417

315,622

9. Brunswick

1,526

302,792

10. Saxe-Weimar

1,421

283,044

11. Mecklenburg-Strelitz

997

98,770

12. Saxe-Meiningen.

933

180,335

13. Anhalt.

869

197,041

14. Saxe-Cobnrg-Gotha

816

168,735

15. Saxe-Altenburg ".

509

141,426

16. Waldeek

466

56,809

17. Lippe.-Detmold

445

111,352

18. Sclrwarzburg-Rudolstadt

340

75,074

19. Sch warzbnrg-SondiTshausen

318

67,454

20. Reuss-Schleiz

297

88,097

21. Sehaumburg-Lippe

212

31,186

22. Reuss-Greiz.

148

43,889

23. Hamburg

148

305,196

24. Liibeck

127

48,538

25. Bremen

106

109,572

Total

206,511

38,514,046

The population of Germany was 23,103,211 in 1816, at the end of the great wars against France, and thirty years after, in 1837, it had risen to 30,010,711, representing an average annual increase of