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Where the numbers are ranged in 5 columns. The first denotes the years, 

 the 2d and 3d the baptisms and burials within the city walls, and the 4th and 

 5th show the baptisms and burials at large within the bills. Thus, for instance, 

 22945 is the number of burials, at a medium, for any of the 10 years within the 

 bills from 1744 to 1753 inclusive. And, in like manner, 1221 is the number 

 of baptisms for any year, at an average for 5 years, from 1739 to 1743 inclusive, 

 and so of others. The numbers above the line are computed for 5 years, and 

 those below are for 10. 



In the burials, it is always to be considered, that there are perhaps 2000 more 

 than what the bills represent them. For there are burying-grounds belonging 

 to the Protestant Dissenters, the Quakers, and the Jews, that are very consi- 

 derable, of which there is no account taken. In the first of which, in Bunyan- 

 fields, he was informed there are about 400 burials in the year, and in the others 

 together there may be about 400 more , which sum of 800 we may suppose comes 

 from all parts within the bills. But Dr. B. thinks the one-half, viz. 400, must 

 at least come from within the city, where there are most Protestant Dissenters 

 and Jews. So that 400 may always be added to the burials, within the city. 

 Also both from within and without the city, a great many burials go out into 

 the country, of which no notice is taken. But if we were to suppose that there 

 are 1200 in the whole, carried out into the country, over and above the 800 

 mentioned above, in the burying-grounds, he thinks that to be the outmost. 

 And therefore in the calculations he supposes 2000 burials yearly, more than in 

 the bills at large. 



It is next to be observed, that in the bills the baptisms are always about two- 

 fifth parts, at least, less than the burials, with the numbers added to them above- 

 mentioned ; and that this difference within the city seems continually to increase. 



