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all alike. And thus the number of houfes will be 
1,458,096. which, multiplied by 5, will give us the 
number of people, 7,290,480. If to this we add 
the propofed increafe, 789,558. we fhall have 
8,080,038 for the number of people now alive in 
England. 
The fifth and laft thing I would obferve from my 
numbers is, that we may hence guefs at the number 
of people in the whole kingdom : for if 1 87 1, the 
good acres in Shefford, demand 425 perfons for their 
cultivation, then will 25,300,000 good acres in 
England require 5,704,168 for the cultivation of the 
land only. Now fuppofing one third part of the 
people only to live in towns, above what is necefiary 
for the cultivation of the land belonging to fiich 
towns, then we muff add 2,852,084 to the above 
fum, which gives us 8,556,252 for the number of 
people in England. It may probably here be faid, 
that this is but little better than reckoning at random. 
Indeed I allow it is fo. But then I mull beg leave to 
obferve, that it has full as good a foundation to ftand 
upon, as any calculation, that I have feen hitherto 
advanced. It has one datum y viz. a certain number 
of perfons to a certain number of acres. It ought 
to be noted at the fame time, that we are an inland 
place, have no fort of manufa&ure carried on, and 
confequently no acceffion of ftrangers. 
If we examine the calculation arifing from the 
confumption of wheat, we fliall fee fome reafon to 
fufpedt, that the number of inhabitants in England 
is not lliort of eight millions. I am perfuaded I 
do not exaggerate, when I affirm, that three fourths 
of the people north of Trent, and in Wales, do not 
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