In the more thickly-populated quarters of the city of Bombayquarters that are rarely explored by the European, a succession of criers and hawkers pass through the streets from morn till eve and sometimes far into the night.

This portion of Grenelle, lying between the Champ de Mars and the densely populated streets of the centre of the district, has an aspect all its own, characterized by vast bare expanses, and long and almost deserted streets running at right angles and fringed by factories with lofty, interminable gray walls.

In thinly populated districts the school may be "ambulatory," held now in one part of the district and now in another, so that all may attend in turn.

There is a belt of territory, now sparsely populated, and inhabited chiefly by negroes, extending from the Dismal Swamp to the Capes of Florida, and from these Capes to the Brazos,generally level, and free from rocks and stones,of the average width of nearly one hundred miles,its area at least two hundred millions of acres,competent to sustain forty millions of negroes, or ten times the number which now exist within the United States.

The country over which they were passing was heavily wooded, and seemingly sparsely populated.

What could there be to do in a sparely-populated agricultural district with, to appearance, hardly a cottage to a mile? After nearly an hour's walking he entered the outskirts of a little country town, slumbering outside the railway system, and, turning aside from the street, stopped at the door of the ancient vicarage.

If tenement districts were taken alone, the population would be found much more dense, and New York proportionately much more densely populated.

How strange this comparative absence of animal life in a country which, having been so recently intruded upon by the destroyermanone would expect to find superabundantly populated with those animals, against which he does not make war either for his use or amusement.

The two men pressed their way through along the narrow passage, finding less obstruction as they advanced, the second block being composed entirely of houses, largely of the tenement type, and apparently principally populated by children.

At street level housewives were struggling to find the plump shimmering mackerals with which they normally populated their spicy yellow curries.

It had been managed as it always is: the train had turned most ingeniously into a corner whence there was scarcely an outlook upon anything of all the magnificence that must yet be lying close about them; and here was only a tolerably well-populated country town, filled up to just the point that excludes the picturesque and does not attain to the highly civilized.

He had very certainly never known anybody who in his opinion merited the torments of his orthodox Gehenna; so that in imagination he vaguely populated its blazing corridors with Nero and Judas and Caesar Borgia and Henry VIII, and Spanish Inquisitors and the aboriginal American Indiansexcepting of course his ancestress Pocahontasand with Benedict Arnold and all the "carpet-baggers" and suchlike other eminent practitioners of depravity.

How can we believe, then, that nineteen centuries ago, Gaul, so weakly populated and so slightly organized, suddenly sent two hundred and forty thousand men to the assistance of eighty thousand Gauls besieged in the little town of Alesia by fifty or sixty thousand Romans?