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which is the Proportion of the difference in the number of Inhabitants; the City of Paris having more than a fourth, and yet not a fifth^[1] more than the City of London. |144|

Christenings, Marriages, and Burials in the City of Paris, 1670.

 

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Christenings, Marriages, and Burials in the City of Paris, 1671.

 

 

1. Obviously a slip. It should be "more than a fifth and yet not more than a fourth."
2. A misprint for 16,816, which is the correct footing, see Recherches statistiques, tables, 53.