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harbour, is 600 feet long and 400 wide; the second sluice, imme-' diately behind, as long and as wide as the first. Then follows a canal 3,600 feet long, varying in width from 260 to 108 feet, and having about halfway another harbour for dredging-steamers and similar craft. This leads to the port proper, consisting of a basin 1,200 feet • long and 750 wide, with a smaller basin for boats. At the back of the principal harbour there are two shipyards for the construction of iron-cased frigates of the largest size, and all the other parts of a ■ naval establishment. The total cost of construction of Willi elmshaven was 1,500,000/. (Communication of the Royal Prussian Govern- ment to the Statesman's Year-book.}
Area and Population.
The following table gives the area and population of the various States of Germany, according to the census of December 3, 1867 : —
States
Area, English sq. miles
Population
1. Prussia .....
137,066
24,043,902
2. Bavaria
29,347
4,824,421
3. Wiirtemberg
7,675
1,778,479
4. Saxony . .
6,777
2,423,586
5. Baden .
5,851
1,434,970
6. Mecklenburg-Schwerin
4,834
560,618
7. Hesse .
2,866
823,138
8. Oldenburg .
2,417
315,622
9. Brunswick
1,526
302,792
10. Saxe-Weimar
1,421
283,044
11. Mecklenburg-Strelitz
997
98,770
12. Saxe-Meiningen .
933
180,335
13. Anhalt .
869
197,041
14. Saxe-Cobnrg-Gotha
816
168,735
15. Saxe-Altenburg " .
509
141,426
16. Waldeek
466
56,809
17. Lippe.-Detmold
445
111,352
18. Sclrwarzburg-Rudolstadt
340
75,074
19. Sch warzbnrg-SondiTshausen
318
67,454
20. Reuss-Schleiz
297
88,097
21. Sehaumburg-Lippe
212
31,186
22. Reuss-Greiz .
148
43,889
23. Hamburg
148
305,196
24. Liibeck
127
48,538
25. Bremen
106
109,572
Total
206,511
38,514,046
The population of Germany was 23,103,211 in 1816, at the end of the great wars against France, and thirty years after, in 1837, it had risen to 30,010,711, representing an average annual increase of
