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However, that Gentleman, from the aforefaid very 
defe&ive Account of the Chriftenings of this City, 
has calculated the Number of its Inhabitants by a 
Medium of the Chriftenings in the Years 1684 a and 
16855 whereby he makes the Number at that Time 
amount to five hundred thoufand three hundred and 
forty-four : But as this Number, is only taken from a 
Medium of two Years, he imagines it too great 5 there- 
fore to reduce the fame to the Number of b four hun- 
dred and fixfy-nine thoufand feven hundred, by a 
Medium of twenty Years, he has unwarrantably pre- 
cluded the Sum of fourteen thoufand feven hun- 
dred and two, the Number of Chriftenings in the 
Year 1684, to make room for the Sum of eleven 
thoufand eight hundred and fifty* one, the Num- 
ber of Chriftenings in the Year 16745 whereby the 
Number of the Inhabitants of London y is very much 
lefien’d. 
And as a farther Inftance of Mr. Kerffeboom’s Parti-? 
ality in Favour of the City of ‘Paris, he has calculated 
the Number of its Inhabitants (without mentioning 
the Uncertainty of a Calculation founded on a fhort 
Space of Time, as he has done in the Cafe of Lon- 
don) at a Medium of the Chriftenings for the Years c 
1670, 1671 and 1672, whereby he makes them at that 
time, amount to, fix hundred and ten thoufand three 
hundred 5 adding, the Number muft have been greater 
at the End of the laft Century 5 as by his extravagant 
manner of Calculation it fhould be at prefent. 
But as it appears by the above-fpecified ten Years 
Account, that the Chriftenings of London greatly 
exceed the Burials of that Time, I think it will not 
be 
* Kerffeboonfs Verhandel. 14. * id. ibid. f ib.p, 1 6> 
