Dr. Berger on the Isle of Man. 



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so much show an increase of population* as an increase of com- 

 forts amongst the inhabitants at large, the consequence of a more 

 extensive system of cultivation, and the diminishing number of 

 fishing boats that used to take out in the months of harvest upwards 

 of 2000 of the most active inhabitants of the labouring class.f 



An account of the coals imported into\ 

 the Isle of Man for ten years, ending the 

 5th January 1791. 



Years. 

 1781 

 1782 



1783 

 1784 

 1785 

 178G 

 1787 

 1788 

 1789 

 1790 



Chaldrons. ± 

 2728 

 2632 

 2833 

 3236 

 3383 

 S796 

 3379 

 3719 

 3639 

 4321 



Total ^m^^ 



Bushels. 



18 



27 



18 



9 



18 

 18 

 27 

 18 

 9 



18 



An account of the coals imported into 

 the Isle of Man within twelve years ; viz. 

 from the 5th January 1798, to the 5th 

 July 1810. 



Years. 

 1798 

 1799 

 1800 

 1801 

 1802 

 1803 

 1804 

 1805 

 1806 

 1807 

 1808 

 1809 



Chaldrons. 

 3359 

 3238 

 5693 

 6130 

 6379 

 7041 

 7244 

 6823 

 6937 

 7461 

 8807 

 9020 



Total 82337 



Bushels. 

 18 



9 

 27 





 27 

 16 

 27 

 22 

 33 

 25 



4 



4 



34 



As to the great advantage the inhabitants would derive, were 

 coals to be discovered on their isle, I should entertain some doubt, 

 when I consider that the inhabitants of the city of Dublin have 

 their coals put into their cellars at less expence than the persons 

 who live in the County of Cumberland, twelve miles distant from 



* The Census of 1792, returned 28,000 inhabitants nearly, but Mr. Curwcn obserTCS 

 that all the estimates of the population of the Isle of Man published at different periods, 

 have been much overated. He hardly thinks it can exceed 23,000 or even so much, y\z. 

 6000 inhabitants at Douglass, 2000 at Castle-town, 2000 at Peel, and 1500 at Ramsay, 

 besides 11,000 spread over the island, considering how few Tillages there are, and how 

 small their sizes are. 



+ Ibid. 



+ A chaldron is a measure of 26 bushels. 



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