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tween one in eight, and one m fourteen, the maximum being found 

 either in the county of Limerick or the city of Cork, and the mini- 

 mum in the county of Waterford. In Ulster , the intensity of edu- 

 cation is the greatest among the male sex in Antrim and the city 

 of Carrickfergus, the relation being one in nine, and the least in 

 Donegal and Londonderry, the ratio being one in twenty. In 

 Connaught, education abounds the most in the town of Galway and 

 in the county of Sligo, and the least in Mayo, the former relation 

 being one in twelve, and the latter one in twenty-four. In Lein- 

 ster, the education of females varies from one in fourteen, to one 

 in forty 'four, the former relation being found in Carlow and the 

 city of Kilkenny, and the latter in the county of Louth. Hence it 

 appears that, both for males and females, the state of education is the 

 lowest in the county of Louth. In the province of Munster, it 

 fluctuates from one in twelve, to one in fortj/'one, the former rela- 

 tion being found in the city of Limerick, and the latter in the 

 county of Waterford. For Ulster, the extremes for females are 

 one in twelve, and one in fortyeight, the former existing in the 

 town of Carrickfergus, and the latter in the shire of Londonderry. 

 In the province of Connaught, the maximum relation is found in 

 the town of Galway, the ratio being one in seventeen, and the mi- 

 nimum in the county of the same name, the relation being one 

 in forty -nine. 



It appears, therefore, that the state of education in Ireland 

 bears no fixed and definite relation to the entire population ; and 

 we shall find, from a subsequent table, that anomalies equally re- 

 markable exist, when the inquiry is confined to adults alone. The 

 last of the preceding tables exhibits, indeed, in a small compass 

 the unequal degree in which its blessings abound in the different 

 provinces, V and also the very inferior degree in which the female 

 mind is instructed and improved. In the whole of Leinster and 

 Munster, the education of the male is one in eleven, and of the 

 female in the former province only one in twenty -three, and in the 

 latter only one in twenty-four. In Connaught, the intellectual 

 state of the males may be represented by one in eighteen, and of 

 the females by one in thirty-seven ; so that in the four provinces 



