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dn ESSAY paiva afcertaining the. POPULATION of 
IRELAND. Mma Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl 
of CHARLEMONT, Prefident of the Royal Irifh Academy. 
By GERVASE PARKER BUSHE, 44, MR.LA 
My Lorp, 
I BEG leave to fubmit to-the Royal Irifh Academy a paper Read June 
compiled in the year 1789 from the furvey books of 1788. 
Imperfe& as it is, it may throw fome new lights upon the 
population and refources of Ireland; and the communication. of 
it to fo refpeétable a body may lead to the obtaining farther 
iuformation upon the fubject, under their aufpices. It was my 
intention to have added the increafed number of houfes returned 
in 1789; but after having examined fome of. the books, and 
after a detection of the frauds committed by feveral of the hearth- 
money colleGors in that year, I find that fhould,I undergo the 
labour of totting up the number of houfes they have returned, 
I fhould ftill be left to computation and conjecture. Several 
increafes. 
5) 1790- 
