2. We have, by allowing that at Paris above 80,000 families, viz.,
81,280, do live in 23,223 houses, 32 palaces, and 38 colleges, or
that there are 81,280 kitchens within less than 24,000 street doors;
as also by allowing 30 heads for every one that died necessarily
there; we have pitched upon the number of people there at a medium
to be 488,055, nor have we restrained them to 300,000, by allowing
with Monsieur Auzout 6 heads for each of Moreri's 50,000 houses or
families.
3. To Amsterdam we allow 187,350 souls, viz., 30 times the number
of their burials, which were 6,245 in the year 1685.
4. To Venice we allow 134,000 souls, as found there in a special
account taken by authority, about ten years since, when the city
abounded with such as returned from Candia, then surrendered to the
Turks.
5. To Rome we allow 119,000 Christians, and 6,000 Jews, in all
125,000 souls, according to an account sent thither of the same by
Monsieur Auzout.
6. To Dublin we allow (as to Amsterdam) 30 times its burials, the
medium whereof for the last two years is 2,303, viz., 69,090 souls.
7. As to Bristol, we say that if the 6,400 houses of Dublin give
69,090 people, that the 5,307 houses of Bristol must give above
56,000 people. Moreover, if the 29,325 hearths of Dublin give
69,090 people, the 16,752 hearths of Bristol must give about 40,000;
but the medium of 56,000 and 40,000 is 48,000.
8. As for Rouen, we have no help, but Monsieur Auzout's fancy of
80,000 souls to be in that city, and the conjecture of knowing men
that Rouen is between the one-seventh and one-eighth part of Paris,
and also that it is by a third bigger than Bristol; by all which, we
estimate, till farther light, that Rouen hath at most but 66,000
people in it.
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