The worthy person who makes this objection in the same letter also
saith -
1. That the province of Holland hath as many people as the other
six united provinces together, and as the whole kingdom of England,
and double to the city of Paris and its suburbs; that is to say,
2,000,000 souls. 2. He says that in London and Amsterdam, and
other trading cities, there are ten heads to every family, and that
in Amsterdam there are not 22,000 families. 3. He excepteth
against the register alleged by Monsieur Auzout, which makes 23,223
houses and above 80,000 families to be in Paris; as also against the
register alleged by Petty, making 105,315 houses to be in London,
with a tenth part of the same to be of families more than houses;
and probably will except against the register of 1,163 houses to be
in all England, that number giving, at six and one-third heads to
each family, about 7,000,000 people, upon all which we remark as
follows, viz.:-
1. That if Paris doth contain but 488,000 souls, that then all
Holland containeth but the double of that number, or 976,000,
wherefore London, containing 696,000 souls, hath above two-thirds of
all Holland by 46,000.
2. If Paris containeth half as many people as there are in all
England, it must contain 3,500,000 souls, or above seven times
488,000; and because there do not die 20,000 per annum out of Paris,
there must die but one out of 175; whereas Monsieur Auzout thinks
that there dies one out of 25, and there must live 149 heads in
every house of Paris mentioned in the register, but there must be
scarce two heads in every house of England, all which we think fit
to be reconsidered.
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