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convenience of promiscuous copulaéons. This is visible enough 
in those other beasts of the forrest w™ notwithstanding y* fre- 
quent litters and y* multiplicity of births at one litter, doe yet 
in y" increase fall much short ofthe afforemenGoned tamed cattle. 
«*« Another quere may be made whether an argument may 
not be drawn hence for y° celibate of y* clergy w™ in the time 
of y° Jews was y° 12 part of y* people, and are now by y™ main- 
tenance estimated to be a 10" part; and in y* Church of Roome 
doe most certainly exceed y* proporéén; but if in our church 
they are but a 14", they will be just y* part of mankind w™ 
nature has left unprovided of females; & if we consider how 
much the care of a family distracts those thoughts w™ the 
service of y* altar requires, we shall think it a high point of 
providence in nature to leave those unprovided for whose 
publick imployments would not permitt y™ to attend y* dutys 
of a conjugall life. 
soe Tihly, Of the Flux and hy y° by of the temper of the Country. 
«¢¢ The flux, both white & red, y® usuall reproach of this 
country, has of late years run soe low in our bills, y* it seems 
near extinct, all y* perisht of it in 6 of these years not exceed- 
ing 364, w" will not amount to 6 in 5 weeks, a small mortality. 
To what we owe this happy change is not easily determined, 
unless we impute it to amending of the air, since the draining 
of soe many bogs since English planters & y* husbandry came 
among us; if y* be the true cause, there is a great deale of 
work yet left for posterity. "Tis certain y* our air is milder and 
less different from y* temper of England y” formerly, our win- 
ters not soe rainy, & we have upon our bills fewer y‘ dye of 
consumptions y" formerly ; & whereas there is a great deale of 
bog land left yet in Ireland, our country is yet capable of be- 
ing improved to a greater degree of salubrity ; but y‘ work is 
reserved for some publick purse. It will be beyond the 
power of a few private fortunes to undertake soe vast an ex- 
pense. Such an army as was maintained in the time ofa long 
