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double of thofe that may be by natural mortality. 
I think there mull: be more ; for if a fhip goes a 
voyage for a year with an hundred men on board, 
and returns only with the lofs of half a dozen, 
Ihe is reckoned to have made a healthy voyage, 
though the lofs is above three times what might 
be expedted from natural decreafe; that is, though 
the lofs by the Sea only may be confidered as 
double the other. And it often happens, that by 
iicknefs there will be much more than this, befides 
ail the other hazards of the Sea. Our fhips of war 
in long cruiling have generally a greater confumption. 
of their people : So that our Ioffes by Sea are rather 
undervalued, when they are edimated to be the dou- 
ble, of what is from the natural decrements of life. 
And, if this be allowed, the lofs by the various con- 
tingencies of the Sea will be more than 3000 annu- 
ally, over and above the number that might die by 
natural cafualties if they were at home ; and in 66 
years it muff be 198,000.. 
And as to our Ioffes by war at Land and Sea, of 
our own people, they are commonly reckoned to be 
300,000, in all the three French wars, fince 1690 : 
But if we abate 50,000 from that number, that we 
may reafon with more certainty, they cannot poffibly 
be lefs than 250,000 ; for in all thofe wars, that 
taken together were about twenty years, there muff 
be more than 10, coo loft yearly by Land and Sea. 
And therefore, both by our commerce and wars, 
from that time mentioned, we have at lead: loft 
about 448,000, or 6800 annually. In which are 
included thofe who died by fatigue, and other hard- 
Blips, as well as thofe in adtual Engagements. 
And 
