Ch. iii. in Russia. 317 



In a subsequent edition of Mr. Tooke's View of 

 the Russian Empire, a table of the births, deaths 

 and marriages in the Greek church, is given for 

 the year 1799, taken from a respectable German 

 periodical publication, and faithfully extracted 

 from the general returns received by the synod. 

 It contains all the eparchies except Bruzlaw, 

 which, from the peculiar difficulties attending a 

 correct list of mortality in that eparchy, could not 

 be inserted. The general results are, 



Males. Females. Totals. 



Births, 531,015. 460,900. 991,915. 

 Deaths, 275,582. 264,807. 540,389. 



Marriages, 257,513. 

 Overplus ^ Males, 255,4327 



of births, } Females. 196,093 \ 451 > 525 - 



To estimate the population Mr. Tooke multi- 

 plies the deaths by 58. But as this table has the 

 appearance of being more correct than those 

 which preceded it, and as the proportion of deaths 

 compared with the births is greater in this table 

 than in the others, it is probable that 58 is too 

 great a multiplier. It may be observed, that in 

 this table the births are to the deaths nearly as 

 183 to 100, the births to marriages as 385 to 

 100, and the deaths to the marriages as 210 to 

 100. 



These are all more probable proportions than 

 the results of the former tables. 



