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.
Now it may be wondered why we mentioned Rouen at all, having had so little knowledge of it; whereunto we answer, that we did not think it just to compare London with Paris, as to shipping and foreign trade, without adding Rouen thereunto, Rouen being to Paris as that part of London which is below the bridge, is to what is above it.
All which we heartily submit to the correction of the curious and candid, in the meantime observing according to the gross numbers under-mentioned.
| London | 696,000 |
| Paris | 488,000 |
| Amsterdam | 187,000 |
| Venice | 134,000 |
| Rome | 125,000 |
| Dublin | 69,000 |
| Bristol | 48,000 |
| Rouen | 66,000 |
Observations on the said Eight Cities.
1. That the people of
| Paris being | 488,000 |
| Rome | 125,000 |
| Rouen | 66,000 |
| do make in all but | 679,000 |