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though mine exceeds Mr. Kerfeboom’s (6) account 
and I am better pleafed to find, that what I take for 
the truth lies between them. And here I fhall ven- 
ture to afl'ure you, upon the whole, that when 
brought to the due proportionals for 1000 births only, 
the account of Breflau falls in between (7) thofe of 
my parifh and of All-Saints in Northampton ; fo 
that in reality, there is nothing either remarkably (8) 
healthful, or long-lived, in the inhabitants of Breflau, 
as has been imagined, by miflaking our author’s 
meaning, who perhaps might intend his ages fhould 
imply the middle of every year, his title being age 
current, and from the 1238 threw off 238 only for 
6 months, or more, at firfl fetting out, and not the 
whole 348, as he would have done, if intended for 
the whole year. However, let his defign be what it 
will, the number 692 (being the remainder of 1238 
after 6 years deaths) is placed in his table j and if we 
take the 692, and what follows thenceforth, we muff 
not forget with what number the author began, nor 
confound his with other tables, that really begin with 
.1000 births, becaufe this has 1000 perfons in the firfl 
year. 
It is with great regret, that I mention any ble- 
mifhes in this table, fo much and defervedlyefleemed, 
which has given the lead to many others of the like 
Year. Lives. Die. 
(6) Mr. Kerfeboom’s table begins 1 — 1125 — 50; but 
the firft year from the birth is fuppreffed, and o year (hould be 
1400 — 275. He might have faid this plainly, to prevent any 
Humbling at the threfhold. 
(7) See p. 69. (d ) 3 (b), (J), and (/). 
(8) Ward’s Clavis Afurae, p. hi, Hodgfon, pref. Stone- 
houfe, pref. p. 7. 
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