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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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re * The six companies have a capital of £12,682,000; they annually consume 1,560,000 tons of coal,and produce daily about 42,000,000 cubic feet of gas of an illuminating power of twelve candles, for whichthey charge 3s. 9d. per 1,000 cubic feet. t Birth rate and death rate in a few large towns (1S78) :— Births to 1,000 Deaths to 1,000living. living. London 36-2 23-Ô Paris — 24-6 Berlin 41-8 29-9 Vienna 38-0 29-6 Rome 27-2 296 X The population of London according to birthplaces (1871) :— . Number. Per Cent. rsatives of London ....... 2,(Jô5,.J76 63-2 „ Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Ducks, and Herts 317,202 98 „ Other parts of Fngland .... 634,620 19-5 „ Monmouth and Wales .... 22,262 07 Scotland 41,029 1-3 „ Ireland 91,171 28 „ British Colonics 25,494 08 „ Foreign countries 66,101 2-0 Bom at sea 1,205 Among^tthe foreigners there were (exclusive of naturalised British subjects) 19,773 Germans, 10,719Frenchmen, 4,825 Dutchmen, 4,229 Poles, 2,287 Scandinavians, kc.
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LONDON. 175 are more Scotclimen in London than in Edinburgh, and more Irishmen than inDublin. This is a mistake, though the Scotch and Irish who have settled inLondon, together with their descendants, are sufficiently numerous to form twovery respectable towns. The number of Jews is more considerable than in anyother town of England. Gipsies have permanently established themselves in theneighbourhood of Dulwich ; whilst in the east, near the Docks, we meet withrepresentatives of nearly every nationality on the face of the globe, includin-Hindus, Malays, Chinese, and Polynesians. Nowhere else in Europe are we pre-sented with equal facilities for ethnological study. The foreign European popu-lation of London is proportionately not as numerous now as it was in the sixteenthcentury.* Most of these foreigners come to London in search of business ; and Fig. 92.—Increase by Immigration, a\d Excess of Births of the Large Cities of Euiiope. According to Dnnant.

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