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ket towns. That is, tho’ there be perhaps above 
300 market towns in England, he fuppofes each of 
them has the fame proportion of the poor in it as the 
Angle town of Langbome; which is unreafonable to 
imagine. For every one of them may have a dif- 
erent proportion, according to the various circum- 
ftances of their trade and fttuation. But yet from this 
ftrange and uncertain way of reafoning, without any 
induction, and from one inftance among 300 cafes 
at lead:, he concludes by proportion, that there are 
388,646 houfes in the country market towns, of 
which there are 188,646 cottages, befides thofe in 
the cities and great towns. 
In the next place, as to his third clafs, the cities 
and great towns, he allows, that my proportion may 
be among them, viz. that the rated houfes are to the 
cottages as 690,000 to 200,000, or 69 to 20 : For 
he thinks, that it cannot be any- where but in the moft 
flourishing places. And therefore, as he has arbitra- 
rily placed 260,000 taxed houfes in them, he com- 
putes that they muff contain 84,058 cottages. But 
he has given no proof, that my proportion is only in 
the mofl: flourifhing places, befides thefe few inftances 
that he has produced ; which are nothing to form 
any general conclufion upon. For if we were to be 
directed by a few cafes, we might think that there 
were much fewer cottages than I have allowed. 
There are fome parifhes, in which there are none at 
all. In the great parifhes of St. James’s and St George’s 
Weftminfter, in which there are about 7000 houfes, 
there are none : in the country parifli of Chifelherft in 
Kent, where there are above 1 00 houfes, there are but 
three : and in many parifhes there is not one in 20. 
So that from particular inftances, there is nothing 
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