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houles made of others. I know fome Parifhes, in 
which they have loft one tenth of their number, 
by this means, ftnce that time; fo that within the 
walls I find there is above double the number loft, 
that I mentioned in my Letter. To live in large 
lioufes is now a part of our luxury. But if there 
be an increafe of houfes in Padington, Mary le 
bone, &c. without the Bills of Mortality, this does 
not a fifed: my argument ; which was only to ftiew, 
that there was a decreafe of the people within 
them ; and furely fuch a fmall increment is not 
to be compared to the probable decieafe on the 
whole. 
In that firft Letter I reafoned, and made my 
calculation, upon the fame principles with Sir 
William Petty, Mr. Graunt, and other approved 
Authors. From a continued increafe in the Bills 
they inferred, that there mult be a proportional 
increafe of inhabitants ; and I from the continued 
decreafe in them, in the fame circumftances, have 
endeavoured to prove a fimilar decreale of people. 
If their reafoning is juft, mine cannot be fajfe ; 
and if the Bills never again appear fo high, as for- 
merly for a continuance, in healthy times, it will 
be a demonftration; 
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