fjgi. LITERARY INTELLIGENCER. 2^5 



confiderably increafed. It appears fi^oin an enumeration re" 

 cently made, that there are in thje country part of the pa 

 tilh, 484, and In the town, 512, fouls ; fo that the whole 

 population amounts to 996, being an addition, in that fpace 

 of time, of 445 fouls. 



The births, deaths, and marriages, as entered in the p^- 

 ri(h regifter, for the laft eight years, are as follows : 



" Rent of the Pari/J:i About the year 176?, .the. 5^1)ple 



parifh was valued, for the purpofe of afcertaining the an^ouiit 

 of the teind, or the value of the tythes, and it was then ef- 

 timated at 472 1. Sterling. But as the increafe has Anc;e 

 been very conliderable, the land rent alon^. is now about 

 1000 1. per annmn^, the town rent is at leafl 2CO 1. more; 

 the dues of anchorage, and a duty of 2 d. per head on all 

 cattle and horfeS exported or imported, payable to the Blair 

 family, may alfo bring in about I2cl. •,. lb that the rent of 

 the paiilli is rather better than 1300 1. a year. 



*% A fuller extraSi will be giveti frojn this valuable 

 performance in our next. 



Hajlings '^urmp. 



Mr. Hastings, when he was in the Eafl Indies,' wal 'at- 

 tentive to every rural obiecl that promifed to pfove iifeful to 

 the country. Among otlier products of the Eaft, that he 

 imported hither, were the feeds of a kind of turnip from 

 Bentar, which has not yet been long enough cultivated to af- 

 ceitain its qualities. — 'i'he following letter from Sir Jofeph 

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