grec excufable, if I have over-rated the advantages 

 which I conceived were Hkely to refuk from fuch 

 an inveftigation to the parillies themfelves, if it were 

 only attempted jn a few detached places. I have 

 ftated thofe fuppofed advantages at length in the 

 Return iifelfj I need not then repeat them here. 

 Should the fociety -confider this paper as at all 

 worthy of their acceptance, I fliall think myfelf 

 highly honoured. 



I am. Sir, 



your obedient humble fervant, 



W. M. PITT. 



To Mr. Matthews. 



3V. B. THE Society, on examining the fundry 

 papers communicated by this ingenious and publick-fpirited 

 gentleman, found the fcheme above alluded to, to be a ftate 

 of the population of the parifli of Coife-Cartle in the county 

 of Dorfet, fuperbly printed on feven folding ftieets, full of 

 columns and defciiptions, in which the names, ages, circum- 

 ftances, and employments, of all tlie inhabitants are dif- 

 tinclly marked ; an undertaking which muft have cod much 

 labour, but which may neverthelefs ferve as a model for 

 other country magiftrates defirous of knowing the ftate of 

 the difhidl over which they prefide, and to anfwer other va- 

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