APPENDIX.
I.
The number of acres in each of the hundreds, according to Mr. Hitchins’s measurement, and the population from the last Parliamentary Statements, including Voltersholm, and the other small pieces of Cornwall artificially placed in Devonshire and the Islands of Scilly.
| Acres. | Population. | ||
| Powder | 128,115 | Penwith | 74,867 |
| East | 112,647 | Powder | 61,911 |
| Pyder | 92,713 | Kerrier | 56,074 |
| Penwith | 90,957 | East | 35,086 |
| Kerrier | 89,051 | Pyder | 25,689 |
| West | 81,558 | West | 18,254 |
| Lesnewth | 61,132 | Trigg | 13,057 |
| Trigg | 54,574 | Stratton | 8,815 |
| Stratton | 48,934 | Lesnewth | 8,277 |
| 759,681 | 302,030 | ||
The three south-western hundreds, Penwith, Kerrier, and Powder contain nearly two-thirds of the whole population.
And of the two divisions of Cornwall, the East division is in round numbers about twice as large as the West division, while the West division has twice the population of the East.
APPENDIX.
II.
The population of Cornwall is given for the years 1700 and 1750, at 105,800 and 135,000; but I know not on what authority. The years 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831 are from the Parliamentary publications founded on the actual census on each occasion.
| POPULATION OF CORNWALL. | |
| In 1700 | 105,800 |
| In 1750 | 135,000 |
| In 1801 | 194,500 |
| In 1811 | 216,667 |
| In 1821 | 257,447 |
| In 1831 | 301,017 |