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ten years preceeding 174? inclufive, and add to this 
2000, as above; the whole of the burials at that time 
within the bills will be 29192, which being multi- 
plied by 30 gives 875760, for the number of the 
people at the year 1743. And therefore the inha- 
bitants are fewer now than they were in 174^, by 
1 27000. I have taken the numbers, at a medium, 
for ten years, to avoid any uncertainty, that might 
arife about a computation for a Angle year. 
If we were to try the fame calculation, by taking 
the burials, at a medium, only for five years to 1753, 
and alfo for five years to 1743 inclufive, the differ- 
ence will be greater. For the numbers at thefe two 
times will be 720180, and 906570, of which the 
difference is 186390 ; fo that the people would ap- 
pear fewer at 1753 ^ ian ^ ie y were in 1743, by 
1 86000. But this is not fo much to be depended 
upon as the numbers above ; becaufe there were two 
extraordinary bills at 1740 and 1741. Or if we 
fhould imagine that there might not more die at 
London than at Breflaw, that is one in thirty-four, 
flill the difference would be greater than we found 
at firft. For taking the burials at an average for 
ten years, at 1753 and 1743, as above, the numbers 
would at thefe two times be 848130 and 9925 8, of 
which the difference is 144398 ; fo that it feems 
plain, if the bills are to be depended upon, that there 
is a decreafe of the people fince 1743 of above an 
hundred thoufand, and that at prefent the number is 
about 740000. And this decreafe has been annually 
continued : for if we try the thing farther, at the di- 
fiance of five years, and take at a medium for five 
years, the burials for 1 753 and 1748, the numbers 
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