[Footnote 132: Eutych. Annal. tom. ii. p. 308, 311. The
twenty millions are computed from the following data: one
twelfth of mankind above sixty, one third below sixteen, the
proportion of men to women as seventeen or sixteen,
(Recherches sur la Population de la France, p. 71, 72.) The
president Goguet (Origine des Arts, &c., tom. iii. p. 26,
&c.) Bestows twenty-seven millions on ancient Egypt, because
the seventeen hundred companions of Sesostris were born on
the same day.]