GROUNDNUTS. LUMBER. COTTON. Tons. £ Feet. £ Lbs. £ 1907: 1910 14,938,749 148,122 11,421 263 197 1,815 1911 13,973,396 138,821 9,701 238 not given 1912 23,573,651 228,745 20,395 506 do. 1913 37,391,848 366,094 27,497 688 do. 1914 24,587,217 240,878 23,514 588 do. 1915 9,217,622 90,661 12,016 300 do. 1916 10,334,793 93,980 17,896 447 do. 1917 7,481,468 69,128 43,870 227 do. 1918 14,680,823 137,649 20,640 212 do. 1919 10,432,250 103,238 nil. 7 210 [Illustration: =NIGERIA=, SOUTHERN PROVINCES Territory held by Great Britain under Mandate is hatched in Red. [Legend] _Stanford’s Geogl. Estabt., London._] =NIGERIA-SOUTHERN PROVINCES= =INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.= =Administrative Divisions.=—On January 1, 1914, the countries, hitherto administered separately under the names of Northern and Southern Nigeria, were amalgamated and placed under a Governor-General. It is, nevertheless, convenient, from the point of view of their agricultural and commercial interests, to deal with them in this place separately. The inhabitants of the Northern and Southern Provinces are to a very large extent dissimilar in languages, religion and customs, and the climatic conditions, by which distinct varieties of life are so much influenced, are so suitably defined by the artificial boundary which, until recently, divided Northern and Southern Nigeria, that little excuse need be offered for the maintenance of old division in the discussion of the subjects within the competence of this book. Following then the plan adopted in the first edition, Southern Nigeria, referred to now as the Southern Provinces, is being first dealt with and treated, as far as possible, independently of Northern Nigeria, now entitled the Northern Provinces, the separate account of which follows. =Geographical Position.=—Pending the adjustment of the eastern frontier, occasioned by the outcome of the recent war, the Southern Provinces of Nigeria extend from 2° 45′ E. to 10° 15′ E. long.: the Western Province reaching 9° 10′ N., and the Central and Eastern about 7° 15′ N. lat. =Area and Population.=—The estimated area of the country before adjustment was 94,000 sq. miles, and the census of 1911 showed the population as 7,857,983.