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which may make it imprudent to publifh the particulars, or to 
divulge to the officers the exa&t quantum of my expectations from 
each of them; but I have no objection to fhewing to any member 
of the Royal Irifh Academy the principal grounds of my compu- 
tations, the returns from which the accounts of population have. 
been taken, the inftru&tions to the officers under which thefe 
returns have been made, and to let them judge of the im- 
partiality and care with which the computations have been 
formed.. ; 
In the paper which I have enclofed I have obferved that if 
the number of houfes amounts to 650,000, and if they contain 
an equal number of fouls to each with thofe whereof the popu-- 
lation has been returned, then the whole number of imhabitants 
tuft be computed at above 4,040,000. That we may fafely 
add 30,000 houfes to the computed number of 650,000, I have 
no doubt whatever; but as to the number of fouls which fhould 
be allowed to each houfe, I can by no means fpeak with equal 
confidence. Since the compilation of the paper I have received. 
fome farther returns. 
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