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s about £1,400,000; agriculture was in a rude and imperfect state; St. James's Square was a receptacle for dead cats and dogs; the streets of London were involved in such profound darkness as to make walking dangerous; the roads in the country were bogs and sloughs, in which carriages were often swamped unless they had six horses; sixpence a day was paid the weaver at the loom; children of six years old were thought fit to labor in the clothing trade; meat was so dear that it is estimated by King, that of the 880,000 families of England, 440,000 only ate animal food twice a week, and the remainder ate it not at all, or at most not oftener than once a week; the great mass of the nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley and oats; the paupers and beggars were estimated at 1,330,000 out of a population of 5,550,000, as great as it is at present, with a population four times as large; the rate of deaths in the capital was one in twenty-three, now it is one in forty; men died faster in