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ART. TR: 
An Account of Enquiries, respecting the subject 
of PoPpuLaTion. 
[By Sir Jonn Catt, bart. M.P.} 
In a Letter to the SECRETARY. 
SIR, Whiteford-House, Callington, 
' June 21, 1798. 
AVING lately communicated to the Board of 
AA. Apriculture in London, (of which I have the 
honour to be an ordinary member) an abftraét of the 
baptifms and burials of twenty-aight neighbouring 
parifhes in Devon and Cornwall, it has occurred to 
me, that a copy of the faid abftraét, with fome obfer- 
vations and conclufions, which I have drawn there- 
from, as matter of opinion, would not be unaccepta- 
ble to the Bath Society, who have fhewn fo much 
zealto promote the agriculture of this kingdom. 
I have, therefore, to requeft, that you will lay the 
papers, which I now tranfmit you, before that So- 
ciety, at their firft meeting; and if any doubt fhould 
remain of the aétual increafe of population, it will 
be eafy for any member to fatisfy himfelf of the faé, 
by the fame means which I have purfued, viz. by 
fending to the minifter of any parifh, where he can 
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