I-jgl. REVIEW.— STATISTICS. S37 



REVIEW. 



■'Sir yahn Sine/air's Stati/lics continued from our laft. 

 According to promife in laft number, we now give, in a ta- 

 bular form, an abftraft of the firft volume of the ftatillical 

 account of Scotland, by means of which the reader will at 

 one \'iew fee the ftate of fome of the nioft important parti- 

 culars that occur in this work., which will give rife to many 

 refle£tions. It will appear to fome, to be, from this view of 

 it, in fome refpeft defedive, as there are in the table many 

 blanks •, but this cannot in moft cafes throw any blame up- 

 on the compilers •, where fafts have not been afcertained, 

 it was not in their power to fupply them : and if in a few in- 

 ftances fome particulars have been inadvertently paffed over, 

 thefe deficiencies may be ftill made up in a fupplement, for 

 the compofing of which this table may have its ufe. In 

 juftice to the ingenious writers of thefe memoirs however, 

 it deferves to be noted, that many particulars of great curi- 

 ofity and importance which are ftated in this volume, could 

 not find admiflion Into the table, fome of which will fall to 

 be occafi.onally mentioned as we go along j but a perfeft 

 knowledge of them can only be* obtained by confulting the 

 work, itfelf. 



This table is divided into feventeen columns j the firft con • 

 tains the name of the parifh and the diftricl in which it is 

 fituated — T\it fecond, the total number of its inhabitants ait 

 prefent — The third, the aveirage births — Fourth, marriages.^. 

 Fifth, deaths, per annum — The fixth marks the Incireafe of 

 perfons in the parifli fince the year 1742, when an enumera- 

 tion foraewhat of the fame fort with that now going on was 

 made at the defire of Dr. Webfter, who was then engaged 

 in ftatiftical inquiries, on which to ground his calculations 

 for the fund to be apprcfpriated to the benefit of clergymen's 

 Ift'idows ; calculations which the refult has Ihewn to have 

 been made with a furprifing degree of accuracy — Tht 

 Jeventh column marks the decreafe lince the fame period, 

 where any thing of that kind has taken place— I'he eighth 



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