----------------------------+------------------------+---------+------------- | | Area in| Population German Name. | French Name. | Square |(approximate) | | Miles. |Dec. 1, 1888. ----------------------------+------------------------+---------+------------- 1. Aargau |Argovie | 543 | 193,000 2. Appenzell | Appenzell | | {Ausser Rhoden | {Rhodes Extérieures| 100 | 54,000 {Inner Rhoden | {Rhodes Intérieures| 60 | 13,000 3. Basel Stadt |Bâle-Ville | 14 | 74,000 " Land | " Campagne | 163 | 62,000 4. Bern |Berne | 2,660 | 539,000 5. Freiburg |Fribourg | 644 | 119,000 6. St. Gallen |St. Gall | 779 | 229,000 7. Genf |Genève (Geneva) | 109 | 107,000 8. Glarus |Glaris | 267 | 33,000 9. Graubünden |Grisons | 2,774 | 96,000 10. Luzern |Lucerne | 579 | 135,000 11. Neuenburg |Neuchâtel | 312 | 109,000 12. Schaffhausen |Schaffhouse | 116 | 37,000 13. Schwyz |Schwyz (Schwytz) | 351 | 50,000 14. Solothurn |Soleure | 303 | 85,000 15. Tessin |Tessin (Italian, Ticino)| 1,095 | 127,000 16. Thurgau |Thurgovie | 381 | 105,000 17. Unterwalden {Obdem Wald |Unterwalden {Le Haut | 183 | 15,000 {Mid dem " | {Le Bas | 112 | 12,000 18. Uri |Uri | 415 | 17,000 19. Wallis |Valais | 2,026 | 102,000 20. Waadt |Vaud | 1,244 | 251,000 21. Zug |Zoug | 92 | 23,000 22. Zürich |Zurich | 665 | 332,000 ----------------------------+------------------------+---------+------------- Total | 15,987 |2,920,723[1] +---------+------------- FOOTNOTES: [1] This grand total of the population, on Dec. 1, 1888, is taken from the provisional Census Tables issued by the Swiss Government in 1889. THE STORY OF SWITZERLAND. I. THE LAKE DWELLERS.