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will be fufficient for 6078300, br fix millions of.pep- 
ple. And this quantity of a quarter to, three, per- 
Ions, though it appears too little, may be admitted, 
as in fome of the northern counties they ufe ibme 
Oat-bread and Rye-bread j and every healthy perfon 
may, one with another, be allowed to confume this 
quantity at leaft. 
From this calculation it feems to me to be evident, 
that there cannot be above fix millions of people iii 
England: For „the barley is certainly not in, a lels 
proportion to the wheat than .Thre^. to Two. *And 
the quantity of wheat exported, and ufed in meclia- 
nical purpofes at home, is not much lefs than the bar- 
ley iifed in fattening, together with what is exported. 
And therefore the quantity of wheat ufed in food' at 
home cannot exceed 2026100 quarters, which, com- 
puted at any reafonable rate, will not be fufficient 
for more than fix millions of people ; becaufe it muR 
always be fuppofed that labouring perfons, or thofe in 
lower life, who have no great variety of food, con- 
iume much more bread, or food of wheat, than 
others in a more wealthy condition j and feven ounces 
a day, at an average, is rather too little allowance. 
And as from the other method of computing from 
houfes, we found the number to be about 6,2^7400, 
from which at leaR 200,000 is to be taken for thofe 
loft in our wars fince 1710, or near that time ; it ap- 
pears that both thefe calculations confirm one aiir- 
other, and that the number of people may be con^ 
Jidered at about fix millions, or rather lefs. In which 
according to Dr. Halley’s rule, there will be about* 
fifteen hundred thoufand men able to carry arms. 
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