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An Account of a Book presented to the Royal Society, entitled, Notitia Hungaria 

 novie Historico-Geographica, &c. Auctore Matth. Belio. By the Rev._ 

 Zachary Pearce, D.D. F.R.S. &c. N"450, p. 398. ,,j 



The author of this work is the Rev. Matthias Bell, a pastor among the Lu- 

 therans at Presburg in Hungary. 



This first volume is to be followed by several others; for the kingdom of 

 Hungary includes 48 districts or counties, and this volume gives an account of 

 only one of them, and indeed is chiefly taken up with the history of the city of 

 Presburg, or Pisonium. as he calls it, which, though inferior in other respects 

 to the city Buda, is the place where the emperors, as kings of Hungary, are 

 crowned, where the states of the kingdom assemble, and the courts of justice 

 are held. 



This volume consists of two parts. The first is general, and gives an account 

 of the physical and political state of the whole district or county of Pisonium, 

 describing its soil, produce, rivers, the temperature of its air, the nature of its 

 inhabitants, its ancient inhabitants and present ones, its nobility, magistrates, 

 and whatever belongs to the natural and political history of the district. 



The second part is occupied with the description of the city Presburg; where 

 the author is very copious and elaborate in setting forth every thing that relates 

 to it, particularly its ancient state under the several nations who possessed it, 

 and its present state under the Austrian family. Leaving to the next volume 

 the description of the 4 other cities or principal towns, situated in the same 

 district. .^ 



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yi short Account of Mr. KerssehooirC s Essay, on the number of People in Holland 

 and West Friezland, as also in Haarlem, Gouda, and the Hague; drawn from 

 the Bilk of Births, Burials, or Marriages, in those Places. By John Eames, 

 F.R.S. N°450, p. 401. 



It is well known to what useful purposes the bills of births and burials, at 

 the city of Breslau, the capital of Silesia, have been applied, by Dr. Halley; 

 as also what curious observations have been made, both moral, physical, and 

 political, by Sir William Petty, on the same argument, several years before, 

 and by Dr. Arbuthnot and others since. Our industrious author has not only 

 consulted them, but acquainted himself more particularly with Mr. King's ob- 

 servations in Davenant's Essays, &c. in order to render himself more capable 

 of making a just estimate in this matter. 



He begins with the number of inhabitants in the two provinces of Holland 



