[400]. 45th Report of Registrar-General (England), (1882), p. ci.
[401]. 7th ed., p. 210.
[402]. 2nd ed., p. 302; 7th ed., p. 194 n.
[403]. Numbers calculated by “natural increment,” i. e. births and deaths—26,138,248; numbers actually enumerated—25,968,286.—Preliminary Report, p. iii.
[404]. ’31–’41, incr. 14.52; ’71–’81, incr. 14.34.
[405]. Or three and a quarter millions of people to England and Wales alone.
[406]. 7th ed., II. ix. p. 215 (written first in 5th ed., 1817).
[407]. Essay, 7th ed., p. 258; cf. Prel. Rept. Census, 1881, p. ix.
[408]. The account of Scotland in the Essay, Bk. II. ch. x., is taken from the Statistical Account of Sir John Sinclair, 1791–99. Sinclair was acting, on the south side of the Tweed, as President of the Board of Agriculture. See below, Bk. II. ch. i. p. 218.
[409]. There was very little in Scotland. It is only once mentioned by Adam Smith. MacCulloch says “never,” but he had overlooked Wealth of Nations, IV. vii. 251–2.