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have been, with their. parents; and confequently, 
when they attain the age of twenty-one, are free to 
go and marry, all which is another fource of increafe © 
to the population. 
That I:may endeavour to place the neceflity of an 
adequate and carly provifion of bread in a ftronger - 
point of view; Iwill’ fuppofe, that from the! year 
1790 to.the year 1788, the population.of Great- 
Britain had increafed from eight to nine millions of 
fouls, and from that period to the end of the year 
1797, a farther increafe of one million had taken 
places: In this latter fuppofition I amin a great de- 
gree warranted, by the abftra& which accompanies 
this, paper; whereby it appears, that in twenty-eight 
parifhes, containing, as far as I can colle&, nearly 
24,009 inhabitants, the increafe in ten years has been 
2311;,0r about 1-roth part. For the fake of round 
numbersin calculation, I will aflume, that the popula- 
tion of Great-Britain at prefent amounts to ten ‘mil- 
lions, and that every man, woman, and child of that 
number confumes of bread-corn fix Winchefter 
buihels»per annum; and that on an average, the 
preduce per acre isnot above twenty buthels, fit for 
converfion: into meal-or flour for the fubfiftence of 
mankind... What may be farther requifite for 
breweries, idiftilleries, ftarch, powder, &c. or feed- 
ing of animals, I will not here touch on, but confine 
myfelf to the objec of population. 
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