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in my power : I have examined the regifters of fe- 
veral neighbouring parishes, and fend you the fub- 
ftance of three of the moil perfect ones. Indeed, 
I could have added feveral others j but as they feem 
to have been now and then negle&ed, I did not care 
to truft to them. However, this I can fafely de- 
duce from them j viz. that what I have here fent 
will be a proper ftandard for thefe parts : and if other 
gentlemen would take the like pains (and it is next 
to nothing) in four or five pariflies in each county, 
and in every great town, we might perceive, by one 
caft of the eye, whether our people are in an ebb- 
ing or flowing ftate. I have not fet down the burials, 
as that would but have embarrafled the table ; and the 
increafe will appear very well without them. How- 
ever, upon an average of all the parifhes I have ex- 
amined, the proportion of the burials to the baptifms 
is as 83 to 149,4.. 
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93 
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