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which dries up generally in Augull, and leaves a flag-

noted water, and Rinking mud, at a critical lesion of
the year, which bring an a putrid fever, and makc
our place fometimes ves7 Getty. In the year 17,1
we buried ..adiaIç6.tar and therefore we
may refunie, that in the healtbieft parts of the na-
tice, die pniportion is Bill greater, perhaps not one
in 6o. In order to clear up this, it were to be wiihed,
that the attest number of the people was known,
wbere-cver the bills of mortality are exhibited. All
neatening without this preliminary is really not much
better than groping in the dark.
. A fourth thing obfervable from nny numbers is,
that the quantity of people allotted to a hook is too
big ill all former calculations fur if wc divide 425,
the number of people, by sio, the number of houfes,
it gives but 4.72, whicb it not quite 4 I 10 a bogie
and therefore 5 to a bottle, I believe, is as much as
ooght to be allowed, taking the nation all together.
Now if the number of hoofer, taken in Queen Anne's
tine, be any thing near thc right, with one fourth
more allowed for cottages, according to Dr. Bracken-
ridge's COM pattation, we [hall make the people in
England, allowing 5 to a hook, to be only 4,156,f V.
winch appears, at Brit fight, to be too fmall a number.
However, of Shetford I would beg leave to obferve,
(and it is far from being the poorelt of villages) mat
nye Man two thirds of all the hoiden axe downright
cottages, end mull be excluded, one as much as an-
dater, from any propofed affeflinent. Upon this
kendation wc mall grant, that at leall half the
kooks in England, take towns and all together, molt
be collages, and plead an exemption from taut.. rr
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