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AccoivU of a Water Bpout. 



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New England is not fo rapid as has been fuppofcd. * But the 



are increafing, are very diiFer* 



hich even old towns 



ent ; as will 



appear from the foIl6wing table, in whicli the 

 times q£ obrervation, the number of ^inhabitants, the annual 

 deaths, births, incr-eafe, and period^ of dupiication are exhib- 

 ited together. 



[Time of oblj No, inhah. 



Nantucket, - *' 

 Northborough, 



Stow, : 



Beverly, ifl parifli, 

 Barnftable, E. P. 



Shrewfbury, 

 Hatfield, 



Hamilton, 

 Hcwton, 



8' 

 9 



10 



years 



830 



aj6i 



703 

 900 



1360 



Deaths. 



12.13 



45-^8 

 i8.<56 



10.05 



11.76 



19, 



Births, j lacreafe. jPeriod of duplication. 



19.J8 



18.63 



95. 



44-44 



ao.15 

 24.48 

 aS.ao 



199.10 I 473.^3 



13-03 

 16.50 



49-71 



14,60 



10.10 



19.20 



29. r years* ^ff'P* 

 296 



i-^ - » W « 



'36. 



37:1, 



48.6 



49.3 



49-5 



1 



r% ^t r 



SiJ i 



I 



1 



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The whole number of inliabitants in thefe 



K^ —id ^ 



»\ 



nine places is 



13852, tfieir mean* annual incfeafe is 27-3, and their period of 

 duplication is 35^ years. = * ' ' "" 



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Account of a Water Spoilt^ In Watuppa Pond, at Freetown 



Letter from NEHEMIAH BENNETT, Efquirf, 

 DAVIS, Efquire. ^ ' - ^^ ' - : -^ 



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DEAR SIR, 



MhMeborottghy OEI. 5, tn^'i 



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Water Spout, whlcl 



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Briftol, in a Pond called th 



ire you a defcription of the remarkable 

 ok place in Freetown, in the County of 



North Watuppa Pond, The Pond 



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