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the number of thofe employed in maritime 

 affairs, including the failors on board the 

 navy, kept up in time of peace, at lefs than 

 between one and 200,000 men : But of thefe, 

 according to the data with which we are al- 

 ready furnifhed, we cannot fuppofe that few- 

 er than 30,000 are annually loft to their coun- 

 try ; including fuch as die a natural death at 

 fea, thofe who go into foreign countries and 

 never return, who perifh by ftiipwreck, by 

 the uncommon diffipation natural to feafar- 

 ing people, &c. 



It is needlefs to expatiate on this fubjedl, 

 in order to ihew how much population would 

 be increafed were that number to ftay at 

 home, marry, and have children ; the thing 

 is felf-evident. 



Arts and manufactures are unfavourable 

 to population, rather in an indire<5l manner. 

 Agriculture, we know, was the employment 

 for which man was originally defigned by 

 his Maker ; and therefore it is more natural 

 and friendly to the conilitution than any o- 

 ther. Many of the trades which man has in- 

 vented for himfelf, evidently tend to fhorten 

 his days, either by the confinement neceirary 

 for carrying them on, or the pernicious na- 



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