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executed with great care. The town contains' 465: 
houfes ; 464 families ; and 2090 inhabitants. Each 
houfe and family therefore confifts of 4 4. indi- 
viduals. Bury is fituated nine miles from Man- 
chefter, and is enriched by a branch of the woollen; 
manufadury. 
At a ltr Ingham, a market town in Chelhire,, 
which has no manufa&ury, the number of houfes, 
according to an exad furvey,'. made in July 1772,.. 
was 248 ; of inhabitants 1029 ; or 4 i. to a houfe.. 
An enumeration, of the people of this town, was 
made about twenty years ago, at which time they 
amounted very nearly to 1000. 
The following is a comparative view of the ftate 
of population, the duration of life, .and the morta- 
lity of the feveral feafons of the year, &c.. in east- 
ham and royton, two country places widely 
different from each other, in climate, fttuation, an'dt 
in the occupation of their inhabitants. 
The parilh of eastham lies in Wirral, one of 
the hundreds into which Chefhire is divided, and 
is extended along the banks of the river Merfey, a< 
few miles diftant from the I rifh fea. The people 
are mofl of them farmers ; though fome are fifher- 
men, and others are employed in the ferry to.> 
Leverpool. 
royton is a chapelry,. fituated ten miles eaft- 
ward of Manchester, under the great chain of moun- 
tains, which divides Lancalhire and Yorkfhire.. 
The inhabitants are employed chiefly in the cotton, 
and linen manufadury; a few. of them are farmers ; 
and fome, I believe, work in the coal pits,, with 
which this country abounds.. 
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