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Ireland to be as 124 to too ; where the difference, 
which is the increafe, is double to the other, and 
by which the whole people would be doubled in 
about 1 14 years j which is furely as much as can be 
fuppofed. And then, by the method that has been 
fhewn in my laff letter, if the people in both coun- 
tries do not exceed 2, 500,000, the annual increafe 
will be found to be 1 5,000, and the fencible men 
will be 3750. 
From the account given in the Philofophical 
Tranfadtions, N°. 261, the number of people in 
Ireland, in the year 1696, did not appear to be more 
than 1,034,000 ; lince which time there has been 
little increafe, as I {hall prefently (hew; and in Scot- 
land they are fuppofed to be lefs than 1,500,000} 
and fo both together they cannot be reckoned at 
more than 2,500,000 : and therefore the annual in- 
creafe of the fencible men cannot poffibly be more 
than 3750, in both countries } which with thofe in 
England will be 8250, for the annual increafe in 
Britain and Ireland, or a little above 8000 men. And 
no reafonable computation can make them more. 
It is true it may be faid, that befides this in- 
creafe, there is a confiderable number of Foreigners, 
who come from all parts of Europe to fettle among 
us, efpecially at London ; but it may be juftly fup- 
pofed, that they are nearly ballanced by the number 
that go from hence, to refide in other kingdoms, for 
the purpofes of trade and other confiderations. And 
there cannot be fo great an acceflion of Foreigners, as 
is commonly imagined} for they aimoft all come to 
this City, and yet it is not in an increafmg hate, as 
has been fhewn in my frft letter, notwithftanding 
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