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National beauty also declined with the nation's populousness.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

You are at once powerfully impressed by its barren solitude, its dreary repose, after the fertility and populousness of the great mining districts through which you have just passed.

From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Collins, Wilkie

The first and most natural root of a great city is the labor and populousness of the adjacent country, which supplies the materials of subsistence, of manufactures, and of foreign trade.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

I learnt that they entirely surrounded the capital, in an equal state of populousness.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Various causes have contributed to the populousness of China.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir