A great many years of continuous communication with all the nations of the world has made, that the customs of all the civilized nations are quite familiar to the natives. Population--Its Density. In the Statistical Annuary corresponding to the year 1891 the population of the Republic has been calculated thus: Departments. Population in 1891. Montevideo 234,688 Canelones 64,772 Colonia 39,309 Soriano 32,617 San Jose 26,528 Flores 13,737 Florida 29,078 Rocha 22,237 Maldonado 15,757 Cerro-Largo 25,741 Minas 23,466 Treinta y Tres 17,297 Salto 32,827 Artigas 17,367 Durazno 25,020 Paysandu 29,962 Rio Negro 15,970 Tacuarembo 25,166 Rivera 16,629 ------- Total 708,168 In the year 1829 the population of the Republic was 74,000 souls, and in the year 1879, 438,245. The increase of the population has produced itself according to the following proportions: In 1882 505,207 inhabitants. 1883 520,536 " 1884 559,668 " 1885 582,858 " 1886 596,463 " 1887 614,257 " 1888 648,297 " 1889 683,943 " 1890 706,524 " 1891 708,168 " The increase of the population during the year 1891, if compared with the population in 1879, is of 269,923 souls, that is to say, 61.59 per cent. If we add to the total of inhabitants during the year 1891 a 6 per cent. on account of the omissions which probably took place in the calculations (omission of inscriptions of births, of declarations in the lists of passengers, etc.), we have a population for the whole Republic of, more or less, 750,658 inhabitants. Dividing the population into nationalities we see that out of a hundred inhabitants there are 70 natives and 30 foreigners. In Montevideo, however, the proportion varies, being of 53 natives and 47 foreigners. The density of the population throughout the Republic is of 3.78 inhabitants for each square kilometre. The Department of Montevideo, which has the smallest superficial area, is the most peopled of all the Republic, (353.44 inhabitants for each square kilometre); in it resides nearly the third part of the population of the country. Next to Montevideo, the Department of Canelones is the most peopled, (13.63 inhabitants for each square kilometre.) The above mentioned results are an evident proof that the territory of the Republic is still very little peopled, and that there is very easily room enough in it for many millions of inhabitants.