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2 _ kingdom, and much more so than such countries ag Belgium. But in
3 density of population, it is about equal to a large portion of the Continent,
4 such as France, Prussia, Austria. In the Punjab there is great variety of
5 density and sparseness of population. This must be expected in a country
6 which contains fertile plains, wastes overgrown with brushwood, deserts of
7 indurated sand, undulating raviny tracts, rugged hills, rich valleys, and
8 long alluvial expanses. There are some districts which, thougly they
9 cannot vie with the most favored districts on either bank of. the
10 Ganges, and its accessories are yet highly populous, and have more
11 than 500 persons to the square mile, but there are many districts
12 towards the West and South, which have a great area, but cannot show
13 more than from fifty to eighty persons to the square mile. It is found
14 however from a close analysis of the figures, that the density or
15 otherwise of the population corresponds closely throughout all districts,
16 with the proportions of cultivated to uncultivated land, and with the
17 relative rate of taxation, that is to say, the districts shown by Census
18 to be thinly populated are shown from other sources to be slightly culti-
19 vated and lightly taxed.
20 188. There are 26,210 villages in the Punjab, with an average of
21 Chief Citiesof thePun- bout 450 persons to each; 2,124 small towns,
22 jab, containing from 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants; 76
23 containing from 5,000 to 10,000; 81 cities containing from 10,000
24 to 50,000; and four first class cities containing more than 50,000
25 inhabitants, 4 e. Umritsur with 122,184 souls, Lahore with 94,153,
26 Peshawur with 53,294, Mooltan (including suburbs) with 55,999
27 souls.
28 189. There are 73 millions of Mahomedans to 53 millions of Hindoos.
29 Mahomedans and Hin. ‘This numerical predominance of Mahomedans is
30 dons: remarkable and unusual in India. From the
31 Eastern boundary, that is from the River Jumna to the Chenab, the
32 Hindoos preponderate ; from thence to the Trans-Indus Frontier, and
33 in the Southern districts, the population is almost entirely. Mahome-
34 dan. But among these latter, while many are of pure Mahomedan
35 extraction, yet many are of Hindoo race converted to Mahomedanism
36 under the Mogul Emperors, In the Lahore division, which contains
37 the Manjha or the original home of the Sikhs, a detail of the Sikhs was
38 taken, and there were found only about 200,000 Sikhs to an aggregate