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dwindling away every day, is indeed very difcourage- 
ing : whereas, on the contrary, I do not balance one 
moment to declare it, as my fixt perfuafion, that we 
can fpare 100,000 brifk young fellows, and frill be 
the mod: populous flourifhing nation in Europe. 
I am, 
Reverend Sir, 
Your affectionate Brother, 
and very humble Servant, 
Richard Forfter. 
LVIII. A Letter to the Right Honourable 
the Lari of Macclesfield, Prefident of the 
Royal Society, from the Rev . William 
Brakenridge, D.D. F.R.S. containing an 
Anfwer to the Account of the Numbers and 
Increafe of the People of England , by the 
Rev. Mr. Forfter. 
My Lord, 
Read Mar. 16, A S I endeavoured, at a former meet- 
ing of the Society, to anfwer ex- 
tempore fome objections offered by a Gentleman in 
the country, to what I have wrote concerning the 
number of people in England ; I now prefume to fend 
you what I faid then in writing, with fome farther 
reflections. And this fubjeCt I never intended to 
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