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CHAP. II. 



Of the Checks to Population in Sweden. 



Sweden is, in many respects, in a state similar 

 to that of Norway. A very large proportion of 

 its population is in the same manner employed 

 in agriculture; and in most parts of the country 

 the married labourers who work for the farmers, 

 like the housemen of Norway, have a certain por- 

 tion of land for their principal maintenance; while 

 the young men and women that are unmarried 

 live as servants in the farmers' families. This 

 state of things however is not so complete and 

 general as in Norway; and from this cause, added 

 to the greater extent and population of the coun- 

 try, the superior size of the towns and the greater 

 variety of employment, it has not occasioned in 

 the same degree the prevalence of the preventive 

 check to population ; and consequently the positive 

 check has operated with more force, or the mor- 

 tality has been greater. 



According to a paper published by M. Wargen- 

 tin in the Mhnoires abreges de /' Academic Royale 

 dcs Sciences de Stockholm* the yearly average mor- 

 tality in all Sweden, for nine years ending in 16G3, 

 was to the population as 1 to 34-^.f M. Wargentin 



* Vol. i. Ito. printed at Paris, 1772. 

 t W. p. 27. 



