Footnotes
[5]
Dr. Arbuthnot finds that in England the number of boys exceeds
that of girls; but people have been to blame to conclude that the case
is the same in all climates.
[6]
See Kempfer, who relates that upon numbering the people of Meaco
there were found 182,072 males, and 223,573 females.
[7]
Father Du Halde, "History of China," vol. iv, p. 4.
[8]
Albuzeir-el-hassen, one of the Mahometan Arabs who, in the ninth
century, went into India and China, thought this custom a prostitution.
And indeed nothing could be more contrary to the ideas of a Mahometan.
[9]
"Collection of Voyages that Contributed to the Establishment of
the East India Company," vol.i.
