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
