INCllEASE of population. 15 it is therefore to be admitted, that from the year 1680 to 1765, the buildings and streets increased, so as to cover 779,000 square yards, more than were covered in the year 1680. This description of the gradual increase of the town may not be unpleasing to a curious reader, more especially as the information is deduced from actual surveys, and allowed authorities. GRADUAL INCREASE AND NUMBER OF INHABITANTS. Tivekpool being a maritime town, subject to a constant influx and reflux of people who are not actual residents, the gradual increase of its inhabitants is not so easily discovered as that of an inland town, where the migrations are few : certainty, therefore, must in some instances, yield to hypothesis. Unfortunately there are no materials, nor records, nor even rational tradition, whereon securely to rest calculation. We have indeed authority, that in 1565, the number of householders and cottagers was 138, and that 89 men navigated 15 vessels; admit ting, therefore, that poverty and necessity com pelled five persons to one of those small dwell- c