(601) 
is to fi'iew the Proportion of Men able to bear Arms in 
any Multitude, which are thofe between 18 and 56, ra- 
ther than 16 and 60; the one being generally too weak 
to bear the Fatigues of War and the Weight of Arms T 
and the other too crafie and infirm from Age, notwith- 
ftanding particular Inftances to the contrary. Under 18 
from the Table, are found in this City 1 1997 Perfons* 
and 3950 above 56,which together make 15947.S0 that 
theRefidueto 34000 being 18053 are Perfons between 
thofe Ages. At leaft one half thereof are Males , or 
5)0x7 : So that the whole Force this City can raife of 
Fencible Men, as the Scotch call them, is about 9000, or 
rf, or fornewhat more than a quarter of the Number 
of Souls, which may perhaps pafs for a Rule for all 
other places. 
The Second Vfe of this Table is to fhew the differing 
degrees of Mortality fix rather Vitality in all Ages * for 
if the number of Perfons of any Age remaining after 
one year, be divided by the difference between that 
and the number of the Age propofed, it fhews thecal 
that there is, that a Perfon of that Age does not die in 
a Tsar. As for Inftance, a Perfon of 25 Tears of Age 
has the odds of 560 to 7 or 80 to 1, that he does not 
die in a Tear : Becaufe that of 567, living of 25* yeans 
of Age, there dodie no more than 7 in a Tear, leaving 
5 60 of 26 Years old. 
So likewife for the odds, that any Perfon does not 
die before he attain any propofed Age: Take the number-- 
of the remaining Perfons of the Age propofed, and di- 
vide it by the difference between it and the number of 
thofe of the Age of the Party propoied ; and that fhews 
the odds there is between the Chances of the Party's 
living or dying. As for Inftance ; What is the odds 
that a Man of 40 lives 7 Years : Take the number of 
Perfons of 47 years, which, in the Table is 377, ..and-. 
