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XV. A Jhort Account of Mr Kerfleboom $ 
Ejfay £ intituled, Verhandeling tot een 
Broeve om te weeten de probable Me- 
nigte des Volks in de Broventie van Hol- 
landt en Weftfrieflandt, Hage 1738. in 
a} 0 ' door W. KerflTeboom] upon the Num- 
ber of people in Holland and Weft>Friez« 
land, as alfo in Harlem, Gouda and the 
Hague 3 drawn from the Hills of Births , 
Burials, or Marriages , in thofe Blaces. 
By John Eames, F. R. S. 
E VERY body knows to what ufcfal Purpofes 
the Bills of Births and Burials at the City of 
Brejlau, the Capital of Silefia , have been applied, 
by a very learned and ;fagacious Member of the 
Royal Society; as alfo what curious Obferva- 
tions have been made, both Moral, Phyfical and Poli- 
tical, by Six: William Tetty, upon the fame Argument, 
feveral Years before, and Dr. Ar but knot and others 
fince. Our induftrious Author hath not only con- 
fulted them, but acquainted himfelf more particularly 
with Mr. Kings Obfervations in c Davenanfs Effays, 
in order to render himfelf more capable of 
making a juft Eftimate in this Matter. He begins 
with the Number of Inhabitants in the two Provinces 
of Holland and Weft-Friezlmd\ thefe he makes at 
this time, viz,, 1738. to amount in all tp 980,000, 
and prefects the Reader with the following Ta f ble of 
the Particulars. It exhibits the Number of People of 
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