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mortality in the foundling-hospital 

 of that city, 306, 307— deaths in the 

 Greek church in Russia for the year 

 1799, 317 — in countries which have 

 been long tolerably well peopled, 

 death is the most powerful encou- 

 ragement to marriage, 330 — no ge- 

 neral measure of mortality for all 

 countries taken together, if obtain- 

 able, could be of use, 332 — in single 

 states, the mortality will depend 

 greatly upon the proportion of the 

 inhabitants of towns to those of the 

 country, 332, 333— nearest average 

 measure, according to different wri- 

 ters, 333 — average mortality of vil- 

 lages, 278 — a greater mortality na- 

 turally produces a greater propor- 

 tion of births, .'341. 

 Deaths ; in a redundant population, 

 every eilort to repress a great mortali- 

 ty will be vain, ii. 300 — 310 — the ave- 

 rage number of deaths must always 

 depend on the average number of 

 marriages and births, 303. See also 

 the articles England (1825) France 

 (1825), and Registers. 

 Debauchery, very early and excessive, 

 among the negro nations of Africa, 

 i. 146. 

 Deformed children generally exposed 



among the American Indians, i. 41. 

 Dcgwessa and Dembea, Abyssinian 



countries, desolated by war, i. 157. 

 Denmark, state of the poor in, ii. 349. 

 Depopulation of the American Indians 



accounted for, i. 62, et seq. 

 Desolation, instance of a very extraor- 

 dinary one among the American In- 

 dians by some epidemic, i. 45. 

 Despotism destroys the preventive check 



to population, ii. 239. 

 Diseases, may be often considered as 

 indications that we have offended 

 against some of the laws of nature, ii. 

 258 — a diminished malignancy and 

 fatality of some diseases have been 

 observed to be attended with an equal 

 increase of those riualities in others, 

 302, 303 — such an effect must, under 

 certain circumstances.inevitably take 

 place from the laws of population, 

 303 — case of the eventual extirpa- 

 tion of the small-pox by means of the 

 cow-pox, considered, 307, 308. 

 Distilleries ; the consumption of grain 

 in, cannot be a cause of famine, its 

 tendency is entirely in a contrary 

 direction, i. 228. 

 Diitrcst among the poor, causes of, ii. 



63, 64 — its recurrence cannot be 

 prevented by any sacrifice of the 

 rich, 65, 66. 



Drought, in Arabia and part of Tartary, 

 i. 141 — effects of, in Abyssinia, 160. 



Drowning of children, Chinese edict to 

 prevent, i, 223. 



Duthil, Scotch parish of, affords an ex- 

 traordinary instance of a tendency to 

 rapid increase, i. 458 — number of 

 children to a marriage, 461. 



E. 



Eareeoie societies in the South-Sea 



Islands, i. 73, 75. 79.81. 

 Easter Island ; state of, with respect to 



the checks to population, i. 85. 

 Education, parochial ; beneficial effects 

 that would attend the establishment 

 of a system of, in promoting among 

 the lower ranks the prudential check 

 to population, ii. 352— among the 

 usual topics of instruction should be 

 impressed just principles on the sub- 

 jects of population and marriage, 353 

 — advantage of adding a few of the 

 simplest principles of political eco- 

 nomy, 353, 354 — we have been mi- 

 serably deficient in the instruction of 

 the poor, perhaps the only means of 

 really raising their condition, 355 — 

 the arguments against instructing 

 them are extremely illiberal and 

 feeble, 355, 356 — it has no tendency 

 to create among them a spirit of 

 tumult and discontent, 356, 357 — 

 would render them less likely to be 

 led away by inflammatory writings, 

 358 — would produce great positive 

 good in inspiring them with just no- 

 tions of the causes and the nature of 

 their condition, ib. — such a plan 

 would contribute to train up the rising 

 generation in habits of sobriety, in- 

 dustrj', independence, and prudence, 

 358, 359 — would raise higher that 

 standardof wretchedness below which 

 mankind w ill not continue to marry 

 and propagate, 359 — an attention to 

 the education of the lower classes is 

 the duty of government, 359, 360. — 

 See also ii. 420, 435. 

 Egvpt, the want of industry has occa- 

 sioned the present low stale of its 

 population, i. 161. 163 — immediate 

 causes which repress it to the level of 

 subsistence; oppression and wretch- 

 edness, 163 — plague and famine, 164. 

 Emi^ation of the ancient northern na- 

 tions, accounted for, i. 115. — inhabi- 



