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INDEX. 



tants of poor, cold, and tbinly-peo- 

 pled territories, why prompted to, 

 116 — tends not to depopulate a 

 country, but merely to increase the 

 births, 458, 459 — a certain degree of 

 it is favourable to the population of 

 the country quilted, 518, 519. 



Emigration; by no means an adequate 

 remedy, but only a slight palliative, 

 to a redundant population in the more 

 cultivated parts of the world, ii. 49 

 — in the first peoplhig of new colo- 

 nies, the hardships invariably greater 

 than those suffered in the parent 

 country, 50 — various instances, 50, 

 52 — the establishment of colonies in 

 the more thinly peopled regions of 

 Europe and Asia would require great 

 resources ; examples, 53, 51 — a rea- 

 son of frequent failures in coloniza- 

 tion, is the unsuitableness of the 

 moral and mechanical habits of the 

 mother country to the new-settled 

 one, 54 — a new colony also at first 

 is in the condition of being peopled 

 be3'ond its actual produce, 55 — the 

 class most affected by the redundance 

 of population in a state are the most 

 unable to begin a new colony in a 

 distant country, ib. — emigration not 

 likely to be actively assisted by go- 

 vernments, except where particular 

 colonial advantages are proposed, 

 56 — even when made most easj', has 

 not produced all the beneficial effects 

 which might be expected, ib. — the 

 social affections and prudential 

 doubts will ever be a powerful check 

 upon emigration under the most 

 favourable circumstances, 57, 58 — 

 every resource arising from emigra- 

 tion must be of short continuance, 

 58 — as a partial and temporarj' ex- 

 pedient it is both useful and proper, 

 60—62. 



Encouragements, direct, to population, 

 futile and absurd, i. 131. 149 — the 

 customs of some nations, and the pre- 

 judices of almost all, operate in 

 this way, 150 — the reverse, however, 

 seems to be a public object in Tibet, 

 201 — effect of encouraging the birth 

 of children without properly provid- 

 ing for their support, 241 — positive 

 laws for this purpose, enacted on the 

 urgency of the occasion, and not 

 mixed with religion, seldom calcu- 

 lated to succeed, 248 — pernicious 

 effects of any direct encouragements 

 to marriage, 329. 



Encyclopadia Britannica, error in, on 

 the subject of fluctuations in the price 

 of corn, ii. 207, note. 



England; Checks to Population in, 

 considered, i. 397 — the preventive 

 check prevails in a great degree, ib. 

 — among the higher classes, ib. — 

 men of liberal education, 397, 398 — 

 tradesmen and farmers, 398 — la- 

 bourers, 399 — servants, ib. — results 

 of the returns under the population 

 act ; proportion of annual marriages ; 

 400, 401 — proposal of taxes and 

 fines on those who live single, for the 

 support of the married poor, im- 

 proper, 402 — annual mortality con- 

 sidered, 403 — the void made by the 

 great mortality of London, filled by 

 the red undant births from the country, 

 407. 410, 411 — annual proportion of 

 births to the population, 412 — to the 

 deaths, 41 3 — to the marriages, 416 — 

 the registry of births and deaths more 

 deficient in the former than in the 

 latter part of the century, 417 — cal- 

 culations of the population from the 

 births and deaths, not to be depended 

 upon, 419 — average proportion of 

 births to deaths, 528 — increase of 

 population in England, from 1800 to 

 1810, 424, 425. 440 — tables of po- 

 pulation in England, from 1780 to 

 1810, 435 — observations on the in- 

 crease of population in England, 436 

 — 441. 



(1825), amount of popula- 



tion in Great Britain in 1801, 1811, 

 and 1821, i. 441 — ratio of increase, 

 441 — 443, 4'i4 — number of years in 

 which the population would be 

 doubled, 442. 444. 447 — extraordi- 

 nary rate of increase, compared with 

 the territory, and the number of its 

 great towns and manufactories, 444 

 . — varying proportions in the births 

 and marriages, 445. 448, 449 — effect 

 of migrations from Ireland and Scot- 

 land, 449, note. 

 Epidemic, dreadful, like the small-pox, 

 in New Holland, i. 33— instance of 

 a very extraordinary desolation by 

 a distemper of this kind, among the 

 American Indians, 45 — epidemics 

 have their seldomer or frequenter 

 returns according to circumstances, 

 117, note — their periodical returns in 

 different countries, 521 — a redun- 

 dancy of population is among the 

 causes of them, 523 — a severe mor- 

 tal epidemic is generally succeeded 



