of the Parijh of Holy Crofs, Salop. 57 
ot parliament made in 1754. Dr. heberden hath made a 
very proper ufe of the number and proportion of marriages in 
the ifland of Madeira ; but then it was an ifland, and all are 
confined to their own conftant relidence. If the whole ifland 
of Great Britain was univerfally to be included in the account 
of the number of marriages, it would be very ufeful and 
compleat. 
Many young people have gone out of this parifh to fupply 
the navy and army, but probably the fame number would 
have emigrated, to be apprenticed and follow different occu- 
pations. 
The public regifter is too general for the purpofes of politi- 
cal arithmetic. The extracts here made are drawn from private 
papers, kept with great care and exadnefs, fo that the births 
and burials of the fixed inhabitants are not rendered in cor red by 
the accidental ingrefs of foreigners, or temporary egrefs of the 
real inhabitants. 
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