for Manchefier and Salford. 171 



every child that is born may be regarded as an 

 addition of fortune. 



A large and populous town, alfo, is favour- 

 able to population, by extending its influence, to 

 a very confiderable diftance, beyond its own dif- 

 trids. Manchefier fupplies ennployment to many 

 thoufand people, refident within the country, to 

 the extent of feveral miles, who gain a com- 

 fortable livelihood, in different branches of the 

 manufaftory, without fuffering the inconve- 

 niences which attend the town. The demand 

 of this great body of people, who raife but a 

 very fmall part of the- provii'ions they confume, 

 added to that of the town, has an effedl upon a 

 ftill larger tra6b of country, the inhabitants of 

 which are occupied in agriculture; and, being 

 fure of finding a ready and advantageous mart 

 for their produdts, they are encouraged to a 

 better tillage of their lands, already in cultiva- 

 tion, and to the improvement of wafte lands; 

 and that cultivation and competency will in- 

 creafe population by removing the obflacles to 

 matrimony, is an axiom, the truth of which 

 cannot be difputed. 



That the increafe of the adjacent country 

 keeps pace v/ith that of the town, appears from 

 the flate of population in the neighbouring pa- 

 rifh of Eccles, where the bills of mortality are 

 kept with an exemplary degree of accuracy. The 

 clerk, at the fame time that he dillributes, 



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