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it. This refledtion leads me to another kind of- de- 
fence of that famous deceafed author ; which is to 
make M. de Buffon fenfible, that “ nearly the fame 
u degrees of probability of the duration of the life of 
“ man in general” are in the table of Dr. Halley, 
which he would have us think are in the extracts of 
M. Dupre's observations or tables, which he has pub- 
lished. For this purpofe I constructed a table paral- 
lel to that of Dr. Halley, which begins with 1000 
lives of one year old, and which I found, in the 
reduction of the great general numbers of Dupre’s 
tables, to have alSo the Smaller numbers analogous ; 
that is, by beginning alSo with 1000 lives of a year 
old. Both tables are laid down as follows : 
Halley’s Table. Dupre’s, reduced. 
Years 
Num- 
Number of 
Years 
Num- 
Number of 
of 
ber of 
Deaths fr. 
of 
ber of 
Deaths fr. 
Age 
Lives 
YeartoYr. 
Age 
Lives 
Year toYr. 
I 
IOOO 
57 
38 
28 
I 
IOOO 
J 3 6 
S 6 
40 
29 
2 3 
17 
14 
9 
6 
2 
3 
4 
8JS 
798 
760 
2 
3 
4 
864 
808 
768 
5 
6 
7 
732 
7 IQ 
6<)2 
22 
18 
12 
10 
9 
8 
5 
6 
7 
735 > 
7 16 
699 
8 
9 
lO 
6 80 
670 
661 
8 
9 
10 
68y 
676 
67 0 
1 1 
11 
665 
5 
A 
12 
646 
7 
A 
12 
6 59 
\J 
- 13 
64O 
u 
A 
*3 
4 
4 
*4 
6 34 
A 
14 
<*5 1 
*5 
628 
6 
l 5 
646 
5 
A 
16 
622 
6 
1 6 
640 
V 
6 
H h 2 Halley’s 
