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pofe nearer fruth : the following conclulions then will' 
refult : 
That therefore on the higheft number of tpooo x 
27, we have 513000, the quantity of okes of bread ' 
confumed, and confequently the number of fouls at 
Conftantinople. That on the decreafe of the plague 
to 17000, 54000 perfons were either dead or mif- 
ing. That when the quantity was reduced to 14000 
on the celTation, thofe either fled or dead amounted 
to 135000. 
It is faid by fome, that Conftantinople contains 
near three millions of inhabitants ; but on whatever 
fuppofltion we take the confumption of the quantity 
of bread, that quantity will be found erroneous. 
On a grofs calculation made by fome of the prin- 
cipal men, and particularly the Chiorbachee’s, or 
colonels of Janizaries, who had their ftations at the 
moft noted and only places where the funerals pafs^ 
they reckoned for flx weeks, whilft the plague was 
at its height, and in its crifis, from 900 to 1000 
per diem ; and that the whole amount qf the dead 
in that time might be about 40000 : and from the 
time it was in its increafe and decline, they added 
15 to 2 ooot 5 more. If therefore we admit. 60000 
in the whole, it will be as that fum to 513000, or 
as I to 84^. 
There is a remarkable coincidence between this 
proportion, and the number of dead which was 
carried out of the Adrianople-gate, during twelve 
days, the fame feafon of the year 1752 5 and of the 
like number of days in 1751. 
