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SIR JOHN BOWRING

To GEO: GRAHAM, Esq.,

Registrar General, &c., &c.,

London.

(Table No. 1)

Reign of Monarch

1 Hungwu, 26th Year,

2 Hungchi, 3 Wanleih,

4 Shunchi, 5 Kanghi,

6

7

+

A. D. Population

1393, 60,545,811) Mirror of History,

Chi-

nese Repository, vol. x.

1662, 21,068,600) General Statistics of the

www

Empire, Medhurst's

++

4th

**

1492, 53,281,158

6th

*

1579, 60,692,856

page 156.

++

18th

6th

++

49th

**

-

1668, 1710,

25,386,209 23,312,200)

China, page 53.

49th

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8

**

9 Kienlung,

50th

1st

10

8th

**

11

8th

12

*

***

1710, 27,241,129

1711, 28,605,716

1736, 125,046,245 1743, 157,343,975 1743, 149,332,730

8th

1743, 150,265,475

13

18th

**

"J

1753, 103,050,060

14

1760, 143,125,225

25th

**

15

16

25th 26th

H

17

27th

1762, 198,214,553

4,552

1760, 203,916,477 1761, 205,293,053

18

55th

23

1790, 155,249,897

19

57th

++

1792, 307,467,200

*

20

57th

**

1792, 333,000,000

21 Kiaking

17th

>>

1812, 362,467,183

Yih-tung Chi, a Statistical work,

Morrison's

View of China. General Statistics, — Chi-

nese Repository, vol, i. page 359.

Memoires sur les Chinois,

tom. vi.,

Grosier, and by De

Guignes:

quoted by

Voyages à

Peking, tom. iii. page 72.

"Les Missionnaires" De Guignes: tom. iii. page 67.

General Statistics, — Chi- nese Repository, vol. i. page 359.

Yihtungchi, a Statistical work,

Morrison's

View of China. Memoires sur les Chinois, tom, vi.,- De Guignes, tom. iii, page 72. Allerstain; Groster: De Guignes: tom. iii. page

57.

Z. of Berlin, in Chinese Repository, vol. i. page 361.

General Statistics,

―

Dr.

Morrison, Anglo-Chin: Coll: Report 1829.

Statement made to Lord

Macartney

-

Statistics,

Chinese Repository,

vol. i. page 359.