This City of _Breslaw_ is the Capital City of the Province of _Silesia_; or, as the _Germans_ call it, _Schlesia_, and is situated on the Western Bank of the River _Oder_, anciently call'd _Viadrus_, near the Confines of _Germany_ and _Poland_, and very nigh the Latitude of _London_. It is very far from the Sea, and as much a _Mediterranean_ Place as can be desired, whence the Confluence of Strangers is but small, and the Manufacture of Linnen employs chiefly the poor People of the Place, as well as of the Country round about; whence comes that sort of Linnen we usually call your _Sclesiæ Linnen_; which is the chief, if not the only Merchandize of the Place. For these Reasons, the People of this City seem most proper for a _Standard_; and the rather, for that the _Births_ do a small matter exceed the Funerals. The only thing wanting, is the Number of the whole People, which in some measure I have endeavour'd to supply, by the comparison of the _Mortality_ of the People of all Ages, which I shall from the said Bills trace out with all the Accuracy possible. It appears that in the Five Years mentioned, _viz._ from 87 to 91 inclusive, there were born 6193 Persons, and buried 5869; that is, born _per Annum_ 1238, and buried 1174; whence an _Increase_ of the People may be argued of 64 _per Annum_, or of about a 20th part, which may perhaps be balanc'd by the Levies for the _Emperor_'s Service in his Wars. But this being contingent, and the Births certain, I will suppose the People of _Breslaw_ to be increased by 1238 _Births_ annually. Of these it appears by the same Tables, that 348 do die _yearly_ in the _first Year_ of their _Age_, and that but 890 do arrive at a full _Year's Age_; and likewise, that 198 do die in the _Five Years_ between 1 and 6 compleat, taken at a _Medium_; so that but 692 of the Persons _born_ do survive _Six_ whole _Years_. From this _Age_ the Infants being arrived at some degree of Firmness, grow less and less _Mortal_; and it appears, that of the whole People of _Breslaw_ there die _yearly_, as in the following Table, wherein the upper Line shews the _Age_, and the next under it, the _Number_ of Persons of that Age _dying yearly_. 7 8 9 14 18 21 27 28 35 11 11 6 5½ 2 3½ 5 6 4½ 6½ 9 8 7 7 36 42 45 39 54 55 56 63 8 9½ 8 9 7 7 10 11 9 9 10 12 70 71 72 77 81 84 90 91 9½ 14 9 11 9½ 6 7 3 4 2 1 1 1 98 99 100 0 ⅕ ⅗ And where no Figure is placed over, it is to be understood of those that die between the Ages of the precedent and consequent _Column_.