[Footnote 20]: In the year 1740, 1,100,000; in 1756, 1,300,000; in 1763, the number had sunk to 1,150,000; in 1779, there were 1,500,000; it was supposed then that the country could maintain 2,300,000 more. It numbers now 3,000,000.
[Footnote 21]: New Prussia, "Provinzial Blätter," Jahrg. vi., 1854, nr. 4, p. 259.
[Footnote 22]: V. Held, "Gepriesenes Preussen," p. 41; Roscius, Westpreussen, p. 21.
[Footnote 23]: When, in 1815, the present province of Posen was returned to Prussia, the wolves there also were the plague of the country. According to a statement in the Posen "Provinzial Blätter," in the district of Posen, from 1st Sept. 1815, to the end of February, 1816, forty-one wolves were slain; and still in the year 1819, in the district of Wongrowitz, sixteen children and three grown-up persons were devoured by wolves.
[Footnote 24]: From manuscript records of the year 1790.
[Footnote 25]: The complaints are very frequent. Compare v. Liebenrothe Fragm. p. 59.
[Footnote 26]: Much, that is interesting concerning the social condition of the North of Germany after 1790 is to be found in "Der Schreibtisch," by Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, pp. 46.
[Footnote 27]: Kant's works, xi. 2, p. 80. The man in question was one of doubtful reputation.
[Footnote 28]: The drinkers were Klopstock and his friends.
[Footnote 29]: The travellers were Fritz Jacopi and his brother.