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of 1866, amounted to 486,272, among whom 217,990 were Europeans. Among the latter, 122,119, or 56 per cent., were French ; 58,510, or 26 per cent., Spaniards; 16,655, or 7 per cent., Italians; 10,627, or 5 per cent., Maltese; and 5,436, or 3 per cent., Germans; the rest, some 3 per cent., belonging to other nationalities.

The subjoined table gives the area in hectares of each of the three provinces into which Algeria is divided, as well as the numbers of the settled inhabitants according to the enumeration made in May 1866, simultaneously with the census of France.

Provinces

Area

Population

Algiers ..... Constantino .... Oran .....

Nomade population

Total ....

hectares 11,300.01)0 17,500,000 10,200,000

200,060 146,302

139,910

486,272 2,434,974

39,000,000

2,921,246

In 1862 there were 5,139,136 acres of land under cultivation in Algeria, of which 413,112 acres, or on an average 8 per cent., were cultivated by the European colonists, and 4,726,024 acres, or 92 per cent., were cultivated by the natives. The total amount of cereals grown' in 1862 was 4,159,712 imperial quarters, of which 426,023 imperial quarters, or 10 per cent., were produced by the colonists, and 3,733,690 imperial quarters, or 90 per cent., were produced by the natives.

Trade and Industry.

The commerce of the colony is, like that of the mother country — see 'France,' p. 80 — divided into 'general,' and 'special.' Accord- ing to official returns, the General Commerce of Algeria, which in the year 1867 amounted to 283,830,990 francs, or 11,353,240/., in the aggregate of imports and exports, rose in 1868 to 295,733,664 francs, or 11,829,346/. In this total, France had a share of 226,170,650 francs, or 9,046,826/., in 1868, the great bulk of the imports coming from and of the exports going to the mother country. The European States that took part in the commercial movement of 1868, appeared in the following order: — Spain, for 19,720,328 francs; Turkey, 16,314,172 francs; England, 13,844,109 francs; Russia, 8,373,813 francs; Italy, 7,716,289 francs; Barbary, 3,467,161 francs..

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