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AN ESSAY ON THE

this remark, by looking over some of the tables of Mr Suessmilch, which Dr Price has extracted in one of his notes to the postscript on the controversy respecting the population of England and Wales. They are considered as very correct, and if such tables were general, they would throw great light on the different ways by which population is repressed and prevented from increasing beyond the means of subsistence in any country. I will extract a part of the tables, with Dr Price's remarks.


In the Kingdom of Prussia, and Dukedom of Lithuania.
 
 Annual Average.    Births.    Burials.    Marriages.    Proportion 
  of Births to 
  Marriages. 
  Proportion 
  of Births to 
  Burials. 
10 Yrs to 1702   21963 14718 5928 37 to 10 150 to 100
5 Yrs to 1716   21602 11984 4968 37 to 10 180 to 100
5 Yrs to 1756   28392 19154 5599 50 to 10 148 to 100


"N.B. In 1709 and 1710, a pestilence carried off 247,733 of the inhabi-

tants