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VI.

Of the Law of Population, as proved by the vary-

ing Prolificness of different Countries

Table LIX. Exhibiting the Increase, for three successive Years, in

the five principal Settlements of New South Wales.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

LX. Exhibiting the Increase, &c., of the White Population

at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1813 to 1820, inclusive.

LXI. Exhibiting the Comparative Prolificness of Marriages,

as regulated by the Density of the Population, in the Countries

specified, and at nearly the same Period.

Of the Law of Population: its apparent Excep-

tions stated, and proved to be conformable to its

primary Principle and Design

Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Cen-

suses of England

Table LXII. Demonstrating the Law of Population by the Census

of England, shewing that the Prolificness of Marriages in the

several Counties is regulated by their Comparative Population.

Table LXIII. Demonstrating the Law of Population, by the Re-

gisters of England, from the Years 1800 to 1810, inclu-

sive.

LXIV. Shewing the Operation of the Law of Population in

the different Hundreds of the County of Lancaster.

LXV. Shewing the Operation of the Law of Population in

the Principal Islands in the British Seas.

Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Cen-

suses of France

Table LXVI. Demonstrating the Law of Population by the Cen-

suses of France.

Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Cen-

suses of Prussia.

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Table LXVII. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the

Censuses of Prussia, at two several Periods.

LXVIII. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the

varying Prolificness in the Provinces of Prussia.

LXIX. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the

Comparative Increase in the Provinces of Prussia, from 1820

to 1827.

LXX. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the Com-

parative Increase in the Subdivisions of the Provinces of Prus-

sia, from 1820 to 1827.

Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Cen-

suses of Ireland .

LXXI. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the

Census of Ireland of 1821.

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Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Cen-

Table LXXII. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the

First Census of the United States.

LXXIII. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the

Census of 1800, of the United States.

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LXXIV. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the

Census of 1810, of the United States.

LXXV. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the

Census of 1820, of the United States.

LXXVI.

XIII. Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Cen-

suses of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Table LXXVII. Demonstrating the Law of Population from the

Censuses of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

XIV.

XV.

Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Cen-

suses of the Towns of England and Ireland

Table LXXVIII. Demonstrating the Law of Population by the

different Prolificness of Marriages in the Towns of England,

as Regulated by the Number of their Inhabitants.

LXXIX. Shewing the Prolificness of Marriages of the most

Thinly-peopled Hundred or Wapentake, in each of the Counties

of England.

LXXX. Exhibiting the Comparative Prolificness of the

Eight Towns and Cities of Ireland, the Population of which is

separately given in the Census of 1821.

Of the Law of Population: proved by the Effects

of an Increase of Inhabitants on Human Prolific-

ness in different Countries

Table LXXXI. Shewing the Estimated Prolificness of Marriages

in England, at the close of the Seventeenth Century.

Table LXXXII. Shewing the average Prolificness of the Mar-

riages of England during half a Century, viz., from 1760 to

1810.

LXXXIII. Shewing the Diminishing Fecundity of Mar-

riages in England, as its Population has Increased.

LXXXIV. Shewing that the Fecundity of Marriages in

France has Diminished as its Population has Increased.

LXXXV. Shewing that the Prolificness of Marriages in

France is still Diminishing with the Increase of its Population.

LXXXVI. Exhibiting the Increase of the Population of

Russia (of the Greek Communion) from the years 1796 to 1827,

inclusive.

LXXXVII. Shewing the Prolificness of Marriages in Sweden

during Five Years, from 1821 to 1825 inclusive.

LXXXVIII. Shewing the Diminishing Ratio of Increase in

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the Kingdom of the Netherlands as Population has Increased,

from the Years 1824 to 1827, inclusive.

XVI. Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Effects

of the Increase of Inhabitants upon Human Pro-

lificness in Ireland and in the United States

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Table LXXXIX. Demonstrating the Law of Population from its

Increase in the Provinces of Ireland, from the Year 1733 to

1821.

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XC. Demonstrating the Law of Population, from the In-

crease in the Provinces of Ireland, between the Years 1791 and

1821.

XCI. Demonstrating the Law of Population, from the In-

crease in the Provinces of Ireland, between the years 1813 and

1821.

XCII. Demonstrating the Law of Population, from the In-

crease of the Inhabitants of the Counties enumerated in 1813,

between that year and 1821.

XCIII. Demonstrating the Law of Population, from the In-

crease in the different States of North America, during the

Intervals of the three last Censuses.

XVII. Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Effects

upon Human Prolificness of an Increase of the

XVIII. Of the Law of Population: Objection, grounded on

what is called "the Preventive Check," as ap-

plied to the foregoing Demonstrations, Stated and

Refuted

Table XCIV. Disproving that in the Counties of England the

"Preventive Check" Diminishes the Fecundity of Marriages,

or that the Number of the latter is regulated by the prevailing

Degree of Mortality.

XCV. Disproving that in France the Preventive Check

Diminishes the Fecundity of Marriages, or that the Number of

the latter is Regulated by the prevailing Degree of Mor-

tality.

XCVI. Disproving from a preceding Calculation (Table

LXVI.) that the Preventive Check Diminishes the Fecundity

of Marriages, or that the Number of the latter is Regulated

by the prevailing Degree of Mortality.

XCVII. Disproving that, in the Provinces of the Kingdom of

the Netherlands, the "Preventive Check" Diminishes the Fe-

cundity of Marriages, or that the Number of the latter is Regu-

lated by the prevailing Degree of Mortality.

XCVIII. Disproving that in the Towns of England the Preven-

tive Check Diminishes the Fecundity of Marriages, or that the

Number of the latter is Regulated by the prevailing Degree of

Mortality.

XIX. Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Effect

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upon Human Prolificness of any considerable Di-

minution of Inhabitants

Table XCIX. Exhibiting the Deaths (distinguishing those by the

Plague) and their Influence on the Contemporaneous Concep-

tions in the City of London, during 70 Years.

XX.

Of the Law of Population, as proved by the Effect

upon Human Prolificness of general Variations in

the Law of Mortality

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Table C. Shewing, from the Registers of England for the last 40

Years, divided Biennially, that, in the most Mortal Years, Mar-

riages are most Fruitful of Conceptions.

XXI.

CI. Shewing, from the Registers of England for the last 40

years, divided into Sections of 2, 3, and 4 Years each, that Mar-

riages, in the most Mortal Years, are the most Fruitful of Con-

ceptions.

CII. Shewing the Deaths, Marriages, and Conceptions in

England and Wales, from the Year 1780 to 1800 inclusive,

with the Increments added to each Year, as suggested in the

Preliminary Observations prefixed to the Census of 1811.

CIII. Shewing, from the published and corrected Registers

of England for the last 40 Years, divided into Sections of 2, 3,

4, and 5 Years each, and differently dated, that, in the most

Mortal Years, Marriages are most Fruitful of Conceptions.

CIV. Shewing, from the Registers of France during 10

Years, divided into two Sections of 5 Years each, that, in the

most Mortal Years, Marriages are the most Fruitful of Concep-

tions.

Of the Law of Population, as proved and illus-

trated by the established Principles of Human

Physiology

XXII. Of the Law of Population, as proved and illus-

trated by the Analogies of Animal and Vegetable

Reproduction

XXIII. Of the Law of Population, as proved by an Appeal

to the Registers of distinct Classes of Society in

this and other Countries, and especially to those

of the British Peerage

XXIV. Of the Law of Population. Concluding Observa-

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tions on its Proofs

APPENDIX.

A Dissertation upon the Balance of the Food and Numbers

of Animated Nature

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