Note 062
Compute twenty millions in France, twenty-two in
Germany, four in Hungary, ten in Italy with its islands,
eight in Great Britain and Ireland, eight in Spain and
Portugal, ten or twelve in the European Russia, six in
Poland, six in Greece and Turkey, four in Sweden, three in
Denmark and Norway, four in the Low Countries. The whole
would amount to one hundred and five or one hundred and
seven millions. Voltaire, de Histoire Generale .
Note to Chapter 2 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon