An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens - In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Con by William Carey
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I shall divide into Christian, Jewish, Mahometan, and Pagan; and shall
now and then hint at the particular sect of them that prevails in the places which I shall describe. The following Tables will exhibit a more comprehensive view of what I propose, than any thing I can offer on the subject. _EUROPE._ EXTENT. Countries. Length Breadth Number of Religion. Miles. Miles. Inhabitants. Great-Britain 680 300 12,000,000 Protestants, of many denominations. Ireland 285 160 2,000,000 Protestants and Papists. France 600 500 24,000,000 Catholics, Deists, and Protestants. Spain 700 500 9,500,000 Papists. SWEDEN including 800 500 3,500,000 The Swedes are serious Sweden proper, Lutherans, but most Gothland, Shonen, of the Laplanders Lapland, Bothnia, are Pagans, and very and Finland superstitious. Isle of Gothland 80 23 5,000 ---- Oesel 45 24 2,500 ---- Oeland 84 9 1,000 ---- Dago 26 23 1,000 ---- Aland 24 20 800 |
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