Note 39 — Part I (continued 2)

First published in [Clarke, Wm.] Observations on the Late and present Conduct of the French, with Regard to their Encroachments upon the British Colonies in North America.... To which is added, wrote by another Hand; Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, Etc., Boston, 1755. See L. J. Carey's Franklin's Economic Views, 46-60, for able survey of Franklin's theory of population and its relation to Malthus and Adam Smith. Also see L. C. Wroth, An American Bookshelf, 1755 (Philadelphia, 1934), 25-7.