Ch. iv. the middle Parts of Europe. 331 



more as the increasing resources of the country 

 will admit. In almost every part of Europe, during 

 the intervals of the great plagues, epidemics or 

 destructive wars, with which it is occasionally 

 visited, the births exceed the deaths ; but as the 

 mortality varies very much in different countries 

 and situations, the births will be found to vary in 

 the same manner, though from the excess of births 

 above deaths which most countries can admit, not 

 in the same degree. 



In 39 villages of Holland, where the deaths are 

 about 1 in 23, the births are also about 1 in 23.* 

 In 15 villages round Paris, the births bear the 

 same, or even a greater, proportion to the whole 

 population, on account of a still greater mortality ; 

 the births are 1 in 22 T 7 T , and the deaths the same, j - 

 In the small towns of Brandenburgh which are in 

 an increasing state, the mortality is 1 in 29, and 

 the births 1 in 24-j^.J In Sweden, where the 

 mortality is about 1 in 35, the births are 1 in 28.§ 

 In 1056 villages of Brandenburgh in which the 

 mortality is about 1 in 39 or 40, the births are 

 about 1 in 30. || In Norway, where the mortality 

 is I in 48, the births are 1 in 34. % In all these 

 instances, the births are evidently measured by 

 the deaths, after making a proper allowance for 



* Sussmilch, Gottliche Ordnung, vol. i. c. vi. s. cxvi. p. 225. 



t Ibid, and c. ii. s. xxvii. p. 93. 



% Id. c. ii. s. xxviii. p. 80, and c. vi. s. cxvi. p. 225. 



§ Id. c. vi. s. cxvi. p. 225. 



|| Ibid. 



5[ Tbaarup's Statistik, vol. ii. p. 4. 



