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Under his personal supervision, during the winter of 1666-67, a general census of the colony was taken the first Canadian census of which we have any record. The count showed, as we have already said, a total population of 3215 in Canada at that time 2034 males and 1181 females. The married people numbered 1109, and there were 528 families.

Altogether the white population of Canada, including the settlers and labourers arriving during the summer of 1665, numbered only 3215. Yet the colony had been in existence for fifty-seven years! It was certainly time for a new effort on the part of the mother country to infuse life into her feeble offspring.

Neither will it be necessary to send young ladies, as we received last year fifteen, instead of the four who were needed for wives of officers and notables. In a former chapter the population of Canada in 1665 was given as 3215 souls, and the number of families 533. In 1668 the number of families was 1139 and the population 6282.

The Colossus of Rameses II. is surrounded by a sediment nine feet four inches deep, fairly estimated. Its date of erection was about 3215 years ago, which gives 3-1/2 inches per century. But beneath it similar layers continue to the depth of 30 feet, which, at the same rate, would give 13,500 years, to A.D. 1854, at which time the examination was made.