Tungchí, 8th year, 1868 404,946,514 { Vassilivitch. 23. Kwangsü, 7th year, 1881 380,000,000 { _Chinese Custom’s Reports._ Seven of these censuses, viz., the 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 20th, 21st and 23d, are given in detail in the following table. The first three belong to the Ming dynasty, and are taken from a continuation of Ma Twan-lin’s _Researches_, whence they were quoted in the _Mirror of History_, without their details. During the Ming dynasty, a portion of the country now called the Eighteen Provinces, was not under the control of Hungwu and his descendants. The wars with the Japanese, and with tribes on the north and west, together with the civil wars and struggles between the Chinese themselves, and with the Nü-chí in Manchuria, must have somewhat decreased the population. TABLE OF THE DIFFERENT CENSUSES OF THE EIGHTEEN PROVINCES. -----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+ | | | | | | | Area in | Aver. | | | | PROVINCES. | English |population|Census in |Census of | Census of | | square | to a | 1710, or | 1711. | 1758. | | miles. | sq. m. | before. | | | | | in 1812. | | | | -----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+ Chihlí | 58,949| 475| 3,260,075| 3,274,870| 9,374,217| Shantung | 65,104| 444| .........| 2,278,595| 12,769,872| Shansí | 55,268| 252| 1,792,329| 1,727,144| 5,162,351| Honan | 65,104| 420| 2,005,088| 3,094,150| 7,114,346| Kiangsu | 44,500| 850| 3,917,707| 2,656,465| 12,618,987| Nganhwui | 48,461| 705| 1,350,131| 1,357,829| 12,435,361| Kiangsí | 72,176| 320| 5,528,499| 2,172,587| 5,055,251| Chehkiang | 39,150| 671| 2,710,649| 2,710,312| 8,662,808| Fuhkien | 53,480| 276| 1,468,145| 706,311| 4,710,399| Hupeh | 70,450| 389| 469,927| 433,943| 4,568,860| Hunan | 74,320| 251| 375,782| 335,034| 4,336,332| Shensí | 67,400| 153| 240,809| 2,150,696| 3,851,043| Kansuh | 86,608| 175| 311,972| 368,525| 2,133,222| Sz’chuen | 166,800| 128| 144,154| 3,802,689| 1,368,496| Kwangtung | 79,456| 241| 1,148,918| 1,142,747| 3,969,248| Kwangsí | 78,250| 93| 205,995| 210,674| 1,975,619| Kweichau | 64,554| 82| 51,089| 37,731| 1,718,848| Yunnan | 107,969| 51| 2,255,666| 145,414| 1,003,058| Shingking | .......| ..| 4,194| .......| 221,742| +---------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+ |1,297,999| 268|27,241,129|28,605,716|103,050,060| -----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+