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as they may furnifh us with a few particulars, which 
may throw fome fmail light upon a fubjeCt hitherto very 
little cultivated : and as what has been advanced this 
way has been always taken from great cities, a little 
from the country perhaps may not be difagreeable. 
The flrft obfervable in my numbers is, that the 
two infancies of human life are exactly equal ; i. e. 
as many die above do as under 2 years of age ; and 
that thefe two periods of life are by much the mod; 
dckly, five eighths of the whole, nearly, dying in 
thefe two dages, which renders the intermediate 
numbers very lmall. 
This will give us fome reafon to fufped, that 
capital cities are very improper to edimate the proba- 
bilities of life from. The continual flux of people from 
the circumjacent country, to feek for employment, 
makes the decrements of life feem much larger than 
they really are. London is very remarkable upon 
this account ; and Breflaw mud receive pretty large 
acceflions, as a very conliderable manufacture is car- 
ried on there. 
The fecond thing I w T ould obferve from my table 
is, that it confirms what Dr. Brackenridge obferves of 
the Ifle of Wight ; viz. that the births are to the 
burials as 1 to 1 almoft ; ours being as 1 5 to 8 nearly. 
Now if this is the cafe of all the country places in 
England, it will give us a ftrong prefumption, that 
the increafe of mankind is much quicker than Dr. 
Derham’s proportion of 1 to 12 j efpecially if we 
confider, 
Thirdly, That of the living not 1 in 50 dies 
yearly ; and this in a village not very healthy. We 
are fituated upon the celebrated Lamborne dream, 
which 
