The world: historical and actual . INESE. 445 In 1872, according to the returns of the Imperialcustoms, there were 3,661 foreigners in China, ofwhom 1,771 were natives of Great Britain and Ire-land, 1,541 of the United States, 4S1 of Germany,and 239 of France. More than half of all these, or2,047, were at Shanghai, and 308 at Canton, leaving1,306 scattered among the other treaty ports, atPeking, and at the several mission stations. Thisdoes not include the foreigners at the Portuguese cityof Macao, and at the British island of Honar-Kong. mile. The most densely inhabited portions of bothcountr
The world: historical and actual . INESE. 445 In 1872, according to the returns of the Imperialcustoms, there were 3,661 foreigners in China, ofwhom 1,771 were natives of Great Britain and Ire-land, 1,541 of the United States, 4S1 of Germany,and 239 of France. More than half of all these, or2,047, were at Shanghai, and 308 at Canton, leaving1,306 scattered among the other treaty ports, atPeking, and at the several mission stations. Thisdoes not include the foreigners at the Portuguese cityof Macao, and at the British island of Honar-Kong. mile. The most densely inhabited portions of bothcountries show a much larger average. The rich,alluvial Chinese provinces of Kiangsu, Anhevei,and Chehkiang, in the Great Plain of China, aver-age 850,705, and 671 inhabitants, respectively, persquare mile. These are the most densely populatedprovinces. The Belgian j>rovinces of Brabant, EastFlanders, and Hainault average fully as dense apopulation as this; or, severally, 771, 760, and 679per square mile. Behm and Wagner estimate the. The population of the entire Chinese empire isstill an indeterminate problem, since the statisticsof the dependencies are mere estimates. These areas follows : population of Manchuria, 6,000,000, ofwhich the semi-civilized province of Moukden, orShiuking, contains 2,187,286 ; of Mongolia. 3,000,-000; of Tibet, 6,000,000, and of Corea, 8,000, population of China Proper is known with aboutas great certainty as that of most European andAmerican countries. According to the latest officialreturns, the Eighteen Provinces contained 360,279,-079 inhabitants, or 277 per square mile. There isno good reason to believe that this is an exaggera-tion. Belgium has over 480 inhabitants per square total population of the Chinese Empire, excludingEastern Turkestan, at 425,000,000, which is in ex-cess of the above figures. The government of China is practically dual; ademocracy within an autocracy. From the ancientpatriarchal times there has come down a system o
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