1801.] 
It has been computed, that the popula- 
tion in fome parifhes is in the proportion 
of twenty-fix perfons for one birth. But, 
according to the above table, which, as 
the regifter bears every appearance of hav- 
ing been kept with care and regularity, 
may poffibly be confidered as pretty exact, 
we muft, in order to arrive at the real po- 
pulation, fuppofe a much greater number 
of perfons for every birth. For inftance, 
in 1748, the number of people amounted 
to 361; whereas, that of births for the 
fame year was only nine. And, to make 
up the population for the years 1787 and 
1796, we muft reckon at leaft 60 or 70 
perfons for one birth. It has alfo. been 
computed, that the burials are in the pro- 
portion of 36 perfons living for one dying 
annually. But, according to the above 
extracts, the number of deaths, upon ‘an 
average, is in the proportion of one to 60 
er 70; and, in the year 1800, the deaths 
were in the proportion of one to 11g. All 
this perhaps tends to demonftrate, that 
from the parochial-records of baptifms 
and burials no certain conclufions or data 
can be drawn, on which to found the fre- 
cife population of a country. | 
On the fuppofition that this parifh con- 
tains 16 fquare miles in fuperficial extent, 
it neceflarily follows, that there are in the 
whole 10,240 acres; and, allowing 6,300 
acres for roads, commons, and walte 
ground, there will remain 3440 acres of 
inclofed and cultivated land. ‘The rate of 
jand is from 7s. to 31. per acre, according 
to the quality of it; but the average rate 
is probably about 34s. per acre. Now 
3440 acres, at 148. an acre, will amount 
to 240381. which is about the prefent year- 
ly rental. The ancient and fuppofed va- 
luation, according to the book of rates, 
by which the land-tax and other affeff- 
ments are collected, is not more than 
sol. 4s. for the whole, per annum. ‘The 
property of the parifh is divided amongtt 
thirty-fix perfons, fome of whom do not 
refide in it; and the number: of tenants 
amounts to twenty-eight. The value of 
the largeft eftate on which any of the 
proprietors refide, does not exceed 80l. a 
Account of Afby, in the County of Weftmoreland. 
393 
Eftaies. ~ Acres. f. 
I 7090 250 PCY GURUMs 
I 336 180 
I 130 130 
I 136 80 
I 130 80 
7 that are above 60 
16 - 40 
13 | ene eneeneinn 20 
ig ————  i0 
a) Ree 5 
The greateft part of the land here is ia 
-pafture, and the quantity of corn grown in 
the parifh will not perhaps ferve the inha- 
bitants more than nine months in the 
year. ‘There are only five farmers that 
grow more than what is fufficient for their 
own ufe; many fow none at all ; and moft 
of the {mall farmers not a quantity ade- © 
quate to the confumption of their own - 
families. ‘The ground, however, which 
is arable and in tillage feems to be as 
‘well cultivated as any land in the neigh- 
bourhood. It yields all the ordinary kinds 
of grain fown in England. Oats, peafe, 
beans, and barley, have been raifed from 
time immemorial; and, what may appear 
very fingular, though not on that account 
the lefs true, it is evident from fome ancient 
and authentic records preferved in the parifh 
that the tithe of barley in the year 1703 
amounted to more than the whole quantity 
of this {pecies of grain produced at the 
prefent time. It is, however, only of 
late years, that wheat, potatoes, clover, 
and rye-grafs, have been introduced ; the 
laft of which the farmers here have not 
been able to cultivate fo fuccefsfully as is 
reported to be done in fome other dittri€ts; 
and, in fact, every kind of artificial graffes, 
clover alone excepted, has been found 
greatly to injure and impoverifh the land. 
Rape is a crop, which, though very lately 
introduced, has already obtained much re- 
pute ; and the fuccefs with which it has 
been cultivated, feems to have excited the ° 
intention of many to attempt it in future. 
The different kinds of grain, &c. with the 
number of acres of each, together with 
the average value, at a very moderate 
year, and that of the fmalleft may be 5]._ rate, areas follow: 
‘Phe effates maybe clafled in value as unders 
Graitty 
