C -57 J 
in a much greater proportion. This appears from 
the following Table, which I have extracted from 
a very curious and entertaining wdrk, lately pub- 
lilhed by my ingenious friend Mr. enfield. 
LeCturer on 
Warrington, 
the Belles Lettres in 
the Academy at 
[£] Year, 
Number of Inhabitants. 
Annual Addition* 
1700 
- 
57 r 4 
1710 
m 
8168 
- 245 
1720 
m 
10446 
- 22/ 
1730 
- 
12074 
- 162 
1740 
m 
18086 
- 6or 
* 75 <> 
tar 
22099 
- 401 
1760 
- 
25787 
- 3 68 
M 
^4 
O 
- 
34004 
- 822 
According to this Table, Liverpool has, at pre* 
fent, upwards of lix times the number of inhabi* 
tants, which it contained, at the beginning of this 
century. 
But the progrefs of trade and opulence, in Man - 
chefter, has been more than adequate to its ad- 
vancement in population. For a conliderable part, 
of the manufactory of this flourifhing town, is 
carried on in the adjacent country, which is thereby 
crouded with houfes and inhabitants. So populous 
are the environs of Manchefter, that every houfh 
in the towmhip has been found, by a late furvey, 
to contain, at an average, fix perfons. The town- 
ihip is indeed but of fmall extent ; and the greatefl 
[ 3 ] Hiftory of Leverpool, p. 28, fecond edition, corre&ed. 
Vql. LXIV. I part 
