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portion of near 2 to i . (See M. wargentin”s Memoir in 
th e Colle^iion Academique^ vol . X V . ) H aving now h ad oc- 
cafion to refer again to this Memoir, I y/ill jufl add, that 
it appears, that by the excefs of the births above the deaths, 
Sweden gains every year an addition of above 20000 
inhabitants ; and that in lix years they increafed from 
2323195 to 2446394. I am afraid, were regulations 
eftablifhed for a fimilar inquiry in this kingdom, we 
flrould be far from, finding our flate, fo encouraging. 
London alone is a gulph which fwallows up an increafe 
equal to near three-fourths of .that of Sweden. 
P O S T S G R I P T. 
The following tables have been fele 61 ed from feveral 
more of the fame kind in M. wargentin’s Memoir on 
the Rate of population in Sweden. I have inferted them 
here, becaufe they fully verify moft of the obfervations 
in the preceding paper, and contain more diftindl and 
authentic information on the fubjedt of human morta- - 
lity than I have ever before met with. 
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