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IX. Farther Proofs of the Infalubrity of 
marjhy Situations . In a Letter frotn the 
Rev . Dr. Price to the Rev. Dr. Horfley. 
DEAR SIR, 
read laft Thurfday to the Royal Society, brought 
to my remembrance a table, exhibiting the rate 
of mortality in a parifh fituated among marfhes, 
which I had feen in Mr. muret’s Obfervations, 
publifhed in the Memoirs of the Oeconomical So- 
ciety at Bern, for 1766. I have fin ce reviewed 
this table, and found that it affords a full confir- 
mation of Dr. Priestley’s affertions. This parifh 
is apart of the diflri£f of Vaud, belonging to the 
canton of Bern, in Switzerland ; and contains 
169 families, and 696 inhabitants. Mr. muret’s 
table, of the rate of mortality in it, is formed from 
a regifter of the ages, at which all died in it for 15 
years. With this table he has alfo given tables, 
from like regifters, of the rates of mortality in 
feven fmall towns ; in 36 country parifhes and 
villages ; in 1 6 parifhes fituated in the Alps ; in 
12 corn parifhes, and in 18 vintage parifhes. — 
From comparing thefe tables, it appears, that 
R. Priestley’s paper, on the 
noxious effefts of ftagnant waters. 
the 
