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dying are truly enter'd : Upon a Suppofition that there 
are yearly born in the two Provinces 28,000 living. 
Children; and laftly, that the intire Number of Inha- 
bitants in any Country is to the Number of the Births 
as 3 y to 1. 
This T able was fent fome time after its Compofure to 
Profeffor s’Gravefande, F.R.S. to know his Thoughts, 
as well concerning the Juftnefs of it, as its Fitnefs to 
afcertain the Value of Annuities on Lives 5 and, as he 
tells us, it met with the Profeffor's Approbation. 
From this Table it appears, (1.) That about half 
the Number of People in the two Provinces are above 
27 Years old, and confequently that near the other 
half are under that Age: (2.) Then, by following, 
what hath been obferv'd for more than 100 Years in 
England , and particularly in London , out of 3 y Chil- 
dren born, 18 of them are Boys, and 17 Girls, the,. 
People in thefe two Provinces will confift of 
^ 504,000 Males. 
1 476,000 Females^ 
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980,000. 
He farther remarks, that it appears from the affigiv 
able Annuities for Lives mention'd before, the Fe- 
males have in all Accidents of Age lived about three 
or four Years longer than the fame Number of Males $. 
which he looks upon to be appointed as a Compen- 
fation for the continual Excefs there is in the Birth of 
the Males above the Females. 
Having confider'd the Quantity, he then comes to 
take Notice of the Quality of thefe 980,000 Inhabi- 
tants, and fays he fees no Reafon to differ from the 
Proportion of Mr. King in Davenanfs Eflays, who 
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