9. What spot of the earth's globe were fittest for a general and
universal emporium, whereby all the people thereof may best enjoy
one another's labours and commodities.
10. Whether the speedy peopling of the earth would make
(1) For the good of mankind.
(2) To fulfil the revealed will of God.
(3) To what prince or State the same would be most advantageous.
11. An exhortation to all thinking men to solve the Scriptures and
other good histories, concerning the number of people in all ages of
the world, in the great cities thereof, and elsewhere.
12. An appendix concerning the different number of sea-fish and
wild-fowl at the end of every thousand years since Noah's Flood.
13. An hypothesis of the use of those spaces (of about 8,000 miles
through) within the globe of our earth, supposing a shell of 150
miles thick.
14. What may be the meaning of glorified bodies, in case the place
of the blessed shall be without the convex of the orb of the fixed
stars, if that the whole system of the world was made for the use of
our earth's men.
THE PRINCIPAL POINTS OF THIS DISCOURSE
1. That London doubles in forty years, and all England in three
hundred and sixty years.
2. That there be, A.D. 1682, about 670,000 souls in London, and
about 7,400,000 in all England and Wales, and about 28,000,000 of
acres of profitable land.
3. That the periods of doubling the people are found to be, in all
degrees, from between ten to twelve hundred years.
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