Ch. iv. the middle Parts of Europe. 327 



rapidly ; but it is evident, that the proportion of 

 marriages to the whole population might remain 

 the same during the whole period. 



This proportion Sussmilch has endeavoured to 

 ascertain in different countries and different situa- 

 tions. In the villages of the Churmark of Bran- 

 denburgh, one marriage out of 109 persons takes 

 place annually:* and the general proportion for 

 agricultural villages he thinks may be taken at 

 between 1 in 108 and 1 in 115.f In the small 

 towns of the Churmark, where the mortality is 

 greater, the proportion is 1 to 98; % in the Dutch 

 villages mentioned before, 1 to 64; in Berlin 1 

 to 110;§ in Paris 1 to 137. || According to Crome, 

 in the unmarrying cities of Paris and Rome the 

 proportion is only 1 to 60.^[ 



All general proportions however of every kind 

 should be applied with considerable caution, as it 

 seldom happens that the increase of food and of 

 population is uniform ; and when the circum- 

 stances of a country are varying, either from this 

 cause or from any change in the habits of the 

 people with respect to prudence and cleanliness, 

 it is evident that a proportion which is true at one 

 period will not be so at another. 



* Sussmilch, Gottliche Ordnung, vol. i. c. iv. sect. lvi. p. 125. 

 f Id. sect. lxxv. p. 14/. 

 X Id. sect. lx. p. 129. 

 § Ibid. 



|| Id. sect. lxix. p. 137. 



% Crome, ueber dieGiossc und Bevblkcrung der Euiopaisdien 

 Staaten, p. 89. 



