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accompanies thefe. reflections, with a fhort note ‘as 
' gorthe extent or nature of each parith, compan, 
she lift. 
» Befides the: reafons sein fated, svi induced 
me to believe that the population of ithe country was 
greatly increafed, I was further Jed*to adopt that 
ideaiby the great:demand for fire-wood; the fcarcity 
of which was every where complained of, in Corn- 
wall'and Devon, norwith{tanding theencouragement 
to promote the growth; by adoubled price;.:and 
. inotwithitanding the inmtroduétion of grates, “and 
burning pit coals in almoft every town, and-among 
the'higher claffes of people in every parifh: within 
ten miles: of the fea coaft, (where coals were never 
feen forty years ago) yet fuch was the.aétual: fear- 
icity of furze and faggot wood, that it could only be 
xeafonably accounted for by an increafed population, 
and: bya greater number of fires being daily keptup. 
Thofe who are curious to make a general’ or 
particular comparifon between the number of males 
and females baptifed, or buried, in: therfeveral pa- 
rifhes, or to draw any conclufions from them, may 
do it by reference to the abftraé. ol fhall only :ob- 
ferve, that moft of the parifhes arg inhabited by 
farmers, labourers, and mechanicks, difperfed :in 
feparate houfes, and, in general, on very {mall farms. 
‘There are only four towns, of no great magnitude, 
in the twenty-eight parifhes; and although it. may 
be fuppofed, that in the courfe of the laft five years, 
the 
