. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 3- a Under W p/i D 20 l(j so pX so lu iO p^ Ocer M ,,Z 25 Miles. inhabitants are steeped in poverty,* but it is nevertheless surprising that so vast a multitude, crowded within such narrow bounds, should manage to live at all. AoRICULTrUE. No country is more carefully cultivated than Belgium. Its great agricultural regions coincide in a remarkable manner with its geological ones. In the Ardennes, where the formations are most ancient, agriculture is carried on in the * In 18Ô3 10 per cent, of all families lived in easy circumstances; 42 per cent, we

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. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 3- a Under W p/i D 20 l(j so pX so lu iO p^ Ocer M ,,Z 25 Miles. inhabitants are steeped in poverty,* but it is nevertheless surprising that so vast a multitude, crowded within such narrow bounds, should manage to live at all. AoRICULTrUE. No country is more carefully cultivated than Belgium. Its great agricultural regions coincide in a remarkable manner with its geological ones. In the Ardennes, where the formations are most ancient, agriculture is carried on in the * In 18Ô3 10 per cent, of all families lived in easy circumstances; 42 per cent, were moderately well off, though frequently embarrassed ; whilst 48 per cent, were poor, one-half of them living in absolute •\7ant. (M. Meynne.)

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