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' operation of thofe which I have enumerated, anda confi- 
derable number of fadts mull be adduced, to afcertain, 
whether the proportion of births to marriages be gene- 
rally increafed in countries advanced from poverty to 
wealth, by the- introdudlion of trade, or the improve- 
ments of agriculture. The inllance of Middleton and 
of one or two places more which firll occurred to me, 
and fuggeiled the preceding obfervations, is oppofed by 
others which have lately fallen under my notice. And 
I cannot clofe this fubjecl better than by giving a view 
of the fadts which I have colledled on both fides the 
queilion. 
A TABLE fliewing the proportion of births to marriages 
in different places, and and at different periods of time* 
IVIiddleton. 
Year. 
Marriages. 
Chriftenings. 
Births to a 
Marriage. 
From 1663 to 1672 
I 21 
388 
3 j+ 
1763 1772 
330 
Warrington. 
1570 
4 f 
From 170 2to 1722 
Jt 3 i 
38s 
2.9-f- 
1752 1772 
1549 
.5034 
3 i 
Pentraeth Parifh, Anglefeyr^ * 
From 1740 to 1747 
32 
100 
3 | 
1764 1771 
33 
149 
4 i 
(e) Vide Philofophical Tranfadions, vol. LXTH. 
Llanddyfnan 
