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die term found by fuch table ; and that, in general, 
about “ of the term deducted, in any part of life, 
would not be unreafonable, when the account is 
carried on to the full extent of human life, efpecially 
if fuch fuppofed duration is taken as a rule for price ; 
for reafons well known to you, by comparing the 
refpedtive (31) value of prefent and future years at 
any rate of intereft (32), and obferving, that a gain . 
of time in the latter, would not be equal in value to 
the lofs of like time in the former. 
After many degrading comparifons above-men- 
tioned, to the dishonour of our capital, it may coun- 
terballance them, to hear what this advocate has 
urged for its healthful nefs and longevity, on his own 
experience. (Lee’s Elfay, p. 252, 253.) I do not 
intend to difparage it, by mentioning a place I have 
known above 40 years* . never famed for falubrity, 
and yet has produced as many (may I fay more ?) per- 
fons of po, and .upwards, than London, as would 
appear on a fair proportion, formed on the burials of 
each, by a method too long to be laid before you at 
prelent) and I am ready to oppofe this, as I did to 
the former complaints, fo to thefe boaftings, being 
both alike ill-grounded and unreafonable. 
As my objections extend to ail the accounts I have 
met with (perhaps I fh'ould except Mr. Dupre’s, if I 
could fee it intire), you will naturally expeCt what 
(31) This, I find, has been noted bj H. B. in observation on 
Lee’s Eflay, 1739. p. i 3 . 21. 33. 
(32) This makes hazard of time and hazard of value unequal in 
tQuife,. 
I have 
