F.8 & F 8. 2CR Tt PP TF. 137 
as a very confiderable number of thofe who refide in the 
vicinity of Philadelphia—probably for feveral miles a= 
‘round—bury their dead in the city; and as the cenfus is 
generally fuppofed to fall fhort of the real numbers of our 
inhabitants; the conjectural eflimate, before mentioned, 
cannot be much too high, if any. 
Many other obfervations, relative to the fubjec of this 
enquiry, will be fuggefted by an examination of the an- 
nexed tables, and of the cenfus itfelf: but, if fuchas have 
been offered fhould ferve to elucidate that fubjeG, it will 
be a gratification to me, to-have contributed my mite on 
the oceafion. 
W. BARTON. 
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