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with a great deal of Pains and Judgment hath divided 
the People of England in this manner : 
The Proportion for every 100,000 Inhabitants is. 
Married Men and Women . . . 34,5-00. 
Widowers 1,500. 
Unmarried young Men and Children 45,000. 
Servants ......... 10,500. 
Travellers, Strangers, &c. . . . 4,000. 
100,000. 
If this Proportion be admitted, then the Number 
of each Sort in Holland and Weft-Friejland will be 
as you have underneath. He adds, that the faid Pro- 
vinces can raife at this Time 220,000 able-bodied 
Men, deducting vd for Difeales and other Infirmities. 
But then he admits at 1 6 years of Age, whereas Dr. 
Halley admits none till 18, Perfons under that Ago 
being generally too weak to bear the Fatigues of W ar, 
and the Weight of Arms. He then proceeds to 
redify the Miftakes of the learned Ifaac VoJJius y who 
makes but 550,000 in Holland , Weft-Friejland, . 
Difallows Six. William Fettf s Account of the Num- 
ber of People in London , becaufe he makes them 
alone equal to the Inhabitants of Holland and Weft- 
Friejland together. 
He clofes the whole with a Table of the prefent 
Values of Annuities upon Lives, in Proportion to the 
ordinary or common Bonds charged uponthofe Pro- 
vinces, and fubjeft to the extraordinary Taxes raifed 
at this Time, viz. 1738. You will find annex’d, the 
Degrees of Mortality or Fatality, faid to be in the 
Hague and Haagambagt , as alfo the Numbers and 
Con- 
