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amounting to a million. Suppofe popula- 

 tion is in the proportion of feyen families at 

 fix fouls to five houfes, the number in E?ig- 

 land and Wales will then be 8,400,000. 



Six houfes giving nine families, the num- 

 ber is, 9,000,000. 



Five giving eight, it is 9,600,000. 

 Whatever number is fixed on, there is the 

 greateft. reafon to believe, that the total is 

 much more confiderable than the common 

 notion makes it. 



According to the minutes of this tour, 

 the number employed by agriculture alone, 

 that is, of farmers, fervants and labourers, 

 anwunt in England to 2,800,000 fouls. 



The number of landlords, and their fa- 

 milies and dependents, including all thofe 

 employed by woods, timber, fiiheries, and 

 mines of all forts, cannot be eftimated at Ids 

 than 800,000. 



According to the preceding eftimation, 

 the labour beftowed on manufactures a- 

 mounts to jT. 27,000,000 ; but as this is ex- 

 clufive of all the wear and tear of hufban- 

 dry, &c. it may here be called thirty 

 millions. Sir Matthew Decker, in his Caufes 

 of the decline of foreign trade , calculates the 

 manufacturers offilk to earn upon an average 

 6/. a header annum: But that calculation 

 would be too low at prefent for all our ma- 



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