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growth and prefenf Jlate of the city of London^ pub- 
li(hed in 1751, fuppofes that no more than a 60th 
part of the inhabitants of London, who are above 26, 
die every year, and from hence he determines that 
the number of inhabitants was near a million. In 
this fiippofition there was an error of at leaft one half. 
According to Dr. Halley’s Table, it has been fliewn, 
that a 34th part of all at 20 and upwards, die every 
year at Breflaw. In London, a 29th parr, according 
to Mr. Simpfon’s Table, and alfo according to all 
Other Tables of London Obfervations. And in Scot^ 
land it has been found for many years, that of 
974 miniffers and profeflbrs whofe ages are 27 and 
upwards, a 33d part have died every year. Had, 
therefore, Mr. Morris ftated a 30th part of all above 
20 as dying annually in London, he would have 
gone beyond the truth, and his conclufion would 
have been 400,000 lefs than it is. 
Dr, Brakenridge obferved, that the number of in- 
habitants, at the time he calculated, was 127,000 
lefs than it had been. The bills have lately ad- 
vanced, but fhll they are much below what they 
were from 1717 to 1743. The medium of the 2lu~ 
nua\ hi rthsj for 20 years, from 1716 to 1736, was 
18,000, and of burials 26,529 ; and by calculating 
from hence on all the fame fuppofitions with thofe 
which made 651,580 to be the prefent number of 
inhabitants in London, it will be found that the 
number then was 735,840, or 84,260 greater than 
the number at prefent. London, therefore, for the 
laft 30 years, has been decreafing ; and though now 
it is increafing again, yet there is reafon to think 
that the additions lately made to the number of 
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