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age, and thus earning a livelihood, are very little bur¬ 
den to their parents. 
Stourbridge and Dudley are, from their staple ma¬ 
nufactures, together with their respective neighbour¬ 
hoods, very populous. Stourport has arisen in conse¬ 
quence of the Trent and Severn canal, a new town or 
port, and is on the increase. Most of the other towns, 
together with the agricultural department, remain, 
respecting population, I suppose, nearly stationary. 
By the returns upon the population act, as published 
in the Monthly Magazine, Worcestershire contains as 
follows: — Houses 26,711, families 29,741, males 
67 , 631 , females 71,702; total inhabitants 139,333. 
Employed in trade 30,230, in agriculture 38,865— 
69095 ; leaving rather more than half, or 70,238, I 
suppose, in a state of infancy, superannuated, employed 
in professions, living on their property, or without em¬ 
ployment. 
This population is considerable, being about ISO 
upon a square mile, 152 being nearly the average po¬ 
pulation of England and Wales; of which, this county 
forms but a sixty-fourth part, but gives a much larger 
proportion of those articles which are necessary for 
the subsistence and comforts of mankind. 
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