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clerk in the church-yard, made me defpair of render- 
ing it in any great degree fubfervient to the purpofes 
of fcience. It has not, therefore, been attempted to 
give it a fcienfific form ; but the articles have for the 
moft part been inferted juft as they were given in. 
Indeed the alarming article of Consumption, which 
includes all thofe returned under the common terms 
ofWeaknefs, Surfeit, and Decay, has been arranged 
under three different periods of age, to enable the 
medical reader the better to judge of the different 
difeafes contained under it. 
The Table of Ages and Conditions has been 
drawn up with great exadtnefs ; and will certainly, 
in a proper feries, form very ufeful grounds for the 
calculations in political arithmetic. In this light it is 
hoped that the utility of accurate bills of mortality 
will be generally apparent ; and that, fince the benefit 
of them is not confined to one profeflion, all will 
concur in encouraging them. 
JOHN AIK IN. 
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V©l. LXIV. 
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