Even in the interior they change their residence and their county with an incredible mobility; no doubt this is because their country is unhealthy and badly administered.

In the El Dorado which we govern, no more than 178,943 individuals are known to have changed their abode from one province to another: _therefore_ our subjects are all happy in their homes." I do not deny the eloquence of these figures, and I am not one of those who think statistics prove everybody's case.

But it seems to me very natural that a rich country, in the hands of an agricultural people, should feed 75 inhabitants to the square kilometre, under any sort of government.

What astonishes me is that it should feed no more; and I promise you that when it is better governed it will feed many more.
The population of the States of the Church has increased by one-third in thirty-seven years.

But that of Greece has trebled between 1832 and 1853.