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 The rental here fpecified is exclufive of 

 that of houfes; how much higher they 

 would carry it, is a queftion that can only 

 be conjectured ; but considering the ama- 

 zing riches of the city of London, and the 

 flourishing increafing (late of fo many other 

 cities and towns, with the prodigious num- 

 ber of fplendid as well as convenient coun- 

 try feats that are every where fpread over 

 the kingdom, the rent of them muft be 

 very confiderable ; and undoubtedly raife 

 the above fum to confiderably more than 

 twenty millions. When the houfes of 

 London were calculated at one hundred 

 thoufand, the rental was fuppofed to a- 

 mount to two millions; now they are an 

 hundred and fifty thoufand, it ought, by 

 the fame rule, to amount to three millions, 

 though I believe that fum beyond the 

 truth ; it is an average of £, 20 per houfe : 

 But thole of the whole kingdom muft ex- 

 ceed, by thefe rules, with proper allow- 

 ances* five millions, or make the rental 

 twenty-one millions ; which, after all cir- 

 cumftances are confidered, particularly the 

 rental of this tour being probably under that 

 of the whole kingdom, muft, I think, yet 

 remain under the truth. Five millions a 

 year, at twenty years purchafe, amounts 

 to one hundred millions ; which makes the 

 total value £.636,000,000. 



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