Ch. iv. the middle Parts of Europe. 325 



In the town of Halle, in the year 1700, the 

 number of annual marriages was to the whole po- 

 pulation as 1 to 77. During the course of the 55 

 following years, this proportion changed gradually, 

 according to Sussmilch's calculation, to 1 in 167.* 

 This is a most extraordinary difference, and, if 

 the calculation were quite accurate, would prove 

 to what a degree the check to marriage had ope- 

 rated, and how completely it had measured itself 

 to the means of subsistence. As however the 

 number of people is estimated by calculation and 

 not taken from enumerations, this very great dif- 

 ference in the proportions may not be perfectly 

 correct, or may be occasioned in part by other 

 causes. 



In the town of Leipsic, in the year 1620, the 

 annual marriages were to the population as 1 to 

 82; from the year 1741 to 1756 they were as 1 to 



120.| 



In Augsburg, in 1510, the proportion of mar- 

 riages to the population was 1 to 86; in 1750 as 1 

 to 123. J 



In Dantzic, in the year 1705, the proportion 

 was as 1 to 89; in 1745 as 1 to 118.§ 



In the dukedom of Magdeburgh, in 1700, the 

 proportion was as 1 to 87; from 1752 to 1755 as 

 1 to 125. 



In the principality of Halberstadt in 1690, 



* Sussmilch, Gottlichc Ordnung, vol. i. c. iv. sect. Ixii. p. 132, 

 f Id. sect. Ixiii. p. 134. 

 X III. sect. Ixiv. p. 134. 

 § Id. sect. lxv. p. 135. 



