342 REVIEW STATISTICS. July 6, 



In perufing this volume, many curious fafts occur re- 

 fpetling peculiarities in regard to births and deaths. The 

 following is the only Angularity of this kind that our limits 

 permit us to infert. In the parifh oi Dunnichan the follow- 

 ing llriking difparity between the deaths of males and fe- 

 males has been remarked for a number of years. 



1 13 153 n 



Difproportion nearly 6| to one. 



This, I fliould think, tends to prove, that the pariih is 

 increafing in agricultural improvements, which give em- 

 ployment to the men, while the girls are in the praftice of 

 going elfewhere to iervice. 



Incrcafe and decreofe of population. The parifh records 

 have been hitherto fo inaccurately kept, that few articles in 

 thefe columns could be filled tip. It appears however from 

 this index, that upon the whole the population has been ia« 

 creafing, though, on account of the conftant drains that arc 

 going on from this country for the army and navy, and lef- 

 iir migrations into England and our external fettlements, not 

 t,o mention thofe copious drains in large bodies which are em- 

 phatically called emigrations, the increafed population is upon 

 the whole much lefs than the ftate of the bills of mortality would 

 indicate. This faft is afcertaincd in one inftance in the 

 volume before us, by the Rev. Mr. Peter Barclay, as to the 

 parifli of Kettle, whofe account in this, and in many other 

 refpefts, deferves to be mentioned with applaufe. He ftates 

 the population to have been 



By furvcyin 1778 1643 Increafe in la years 116 



In the year 1790, males above Separatifts above 8 years 587 



8 years old 639 Of the eftablifhment above dit- 



Under 8 years old 178 to . 805 



Females above 8 years old 7^3 Children under 8 years old 367 



Under 8 years old 180 Males born in i a years from 



TTotalin Dec, 1790 1759 1778101790 32^ 



