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CHAPTER, here, the number of houses may be multiplied by 4,TVVy to give
the number of persons. This will give - - 106,500

Add Churmar, or slaves - 16,574

Dec. i—4,

Total population

123,074

This is exclusive of military, camp followers, travellers, vagrants,
he. &c. From an enumeration of the inhabitants in one of the
districts of Malabar, given by Mr. Baber, the number of persons
in each house is 3,TVo¥o nearly. This would reduce the number of
free persons in Mr. Warden's circle to 78,925

Add slaves - 16,574

Total inhabitants

95,499

but I think the estimate formed on the enumeration by Mr. Raven-
shaw more likelv to be true.
Extent of the The extent of inhabited country, as stated by Mr. Warden, is

country, and , . T

ofthevarious given in the accompanying Iable. He was at the pams to consult
soils ofwhich an the land-holders in this district, and to procure from each a

it is com- L

posed. computation of the different kinds of ground in the DSsam to

which he belonged. This computation was made by estimating
how many Forays of rice such an extent would sow. From the
extent contained in the Table, however, some deduction must be
made in the article of Ubayum lands. Mr. Warden, in this article,
followed Mr. Smee's calculation of the number of Forays of seed
sown; without recollecting, that a considerable proportion of this
kind of land is sown twice a year. Say that this is the case with
one fourth part of it, and we must reduce the Ubayum land now
cultivated to 581,021 Forays, and to 46,862-f acres; and the ge-
neral total to 792,941^ Forays, and to 60,540 acres; for it must be
observed, that Mr. Warden, after much inquiry, fixes the land
sown with a Foray of rice at 58 feet square. According to these
estimates, we have a country containing 60,540 acres, and these
by no means all cultivated, and yet maintaining 123,000 inhabitants.