| Greco-Latin. | |
|---|---|
| Greeks | 2,600,000 |
| Albanians | 1,250,000 |
| Italians | 27,700,000 |
| French | 39,700,000 |
| Spaniards and Portuguese | 20,210,000 |
| Rumanians | 8,400,000 |
| Rhætians (“Romans”) | 42,000 |
| 99,902,000 | |
| Germanic. | |
| Germans | 53,400,000 |
| Dutch and Flemish | 6,720,000 |
| Scandinavians | 5,640,000 |
| Anglo-Saxons | 30,600,000 |
| 96,360,000 | |
| Slavonic. | |
| Russians | 59,000,000 |
| Poles | 11,800,000 |
| Chechians, &c. | 6,750,000 |
| Servians | 5,750,000 |
| Slovenes | 1,200,000 |
| Bulgarians | 3,100,000 |
| 87,600,000 | |
| other | |
| Finns | 4,700,000 |
| Osmanli | 1,300,000 |
| Magyars | 5,770,000 |
| Tartars | 2,500,000 |
| Calmucks | 100,000 |
| Celts | 1,600,000 |
| Basks | 700,000 |
| Letts, &c. | 2,900,000 |
| Armenians | 280,000 |
| Gipsies | 590,000 |
| Circassians | 400,000 |
Included above are 4,500,000 Jews.
[5] W. H. Smith, “The Mediterranean.”—Dureau de la Malle, “Géographie Physique de la Mer Noire et de la Mediterranée.”—Böttger, “Das Mittelmeer.”
[6] Area of the Mediterranean basin:—
| Drainage of | square miles |
|---|---|
| Europe | 683,500 |
| Asia | 232,000 |
| Africa | 1,737,500 |
| Mediterranean Sea | 1,153,300 |
| 3,806,300 |
| Western basin. | Eastern basin. | Adriatic. | Archipelago. | Black Sea. | Mediterranean. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 355,200 | 502,000 | 50,200 | 60,600 | 185,300 | 1,153,300 |
| Greatest depth, fathoms | 1,640 | 2,170 | 565 | 540 | 1,070 | 2,170 |
| Average depth, fathoms | 640 | 960 | 110 | 320 | 320 | 640 |
[8] Quantity of salt held in solution in the Atlantic, 36 parts in 1,000; in the Mediterranean (mean), 38 parts; in the Black Sea, 16 parts.
[9] There are found in the Mediterranean 444 species of fish (Goodwin Austen), 850 species of molluscs (Jeffreys), and about 200 species of foraminiferæ.
[10] The production of salt on the coasts of the Mediterranean is thus distributed among its coast-lands:—Spain, 200,000 tons; France, 250,000 tons; Italy, 300,000 tons; Austria, 70,000 tons; Russia, 120,000; other countries, 200,000 tons. Total, 1,140,000 tons, valued at £480,000.