Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Statistical Illustrations of the Territorial Extent and Population: Commerce, Taxation, Consumption, Insolvency, Pauperism, and Crime, of the British Empire
The History of Great Britain, through a period of nearly 2000 years, is marked by a succession of events, in a high degree striking and interesting; and although she exhibits no monuments of human art, or of human labour, to compare With those of Thebes or of Ellora; in the accompanying Statistics; she' exhibits features, without any parallel within the entire range of human knowledge and she may, at the' pre sent time, be justly regarded as a phenomenon in Social Economy.
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