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He then notices the quality of these 980,000 inliabitants, and says he^ees no 

 reason to differ from the proportion of Mr. King in Davenant's Essays, who 

 with a great deal of pains and judgment has divided the people of England in 

 this manner ; 



The proportion for every 100,000 inhabitants is. 



Married men and women 34,500 



Widowers 1 ,500 



Unmarried young men and children 45,000 



Servants 10,500 



Travellers, strangers, &c 4,000 



100,000 

 If this proportion be admitted, then the number of each sort in Holland and 

 West Friezland will be as below. He adds, that the said provinces can raise 

 at this time "220,000 able-bodied men, deducting -rV for diseases and other in- 

 firmities. But then he admits at l6 years of age, whereas Dr. Halley admits 

 none till 1 8, persons under that age being generally too weak to bear the fatigues 

 of war, and the weight of arms. He then proceeds to rectify the mistakes of 

 the learned Isaac Vossius, who makes but 550,000 in Holland, West Friezland, 

 &c. Disallows Sir William Petty's account of the number of people in London, 

 because he makes them alone equal to the inhabitants of Holland and West 

 Friezland together. 



He closes the whole with a table of the present value of annuities on lives, 

 in proportiou to the ordinary or common bonds charged on those provinces, 

 and subject to the extraordinary taxes raised at this time, viz. 1738. Annexed 

 are the degrees of mortality or fatality, said to be in the Hague and Haagambagt, 

 as also the numbers and conditions of the inhabitants of Amsterdam, Haarlem, 

 Gouda, and the Hague, as also London at this present time. 



The two provinces of Holland and West 

 Friesland. 



Married men and women 338000. 



Widowers 14700. 



Widows 44100. 



Unmarried youth and ) 



children... P^'^^^ 



Servants IO290O. 



Travellers, strangers, &c. 3g30O. 



