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the jntensity of education for the males varies from one in 

 eleven^ to one in eighteen, and for the females from one in twenty 

 three, to one in thirty ^seven. For the whole population the ratio 

 for the males is one in thirteen, and for the females, one id 

 twenty -seven, the former relation exceeding the latter in a greatefr 

 ratio than two to one. Such are the unequal degrees in which 

 the inestimable blessings of .education prevail in this much neg- 

 lected country ! 



But it may possibly be remarked, that the comparison of the 

 number of persons educated with the total population of both sexes, 

 and on which the preceding investigation has been founded, is not 

 an accurate and proper mode of considering the question. This will 

 be admitted, and the only reason for its adoption was the impossi- 

 bility of obtaining, by any other means, the relative states of male 

 and female education,^ in the dififerent districts of the kingdom, a 

 point most interesting to determine, since nothing indicates more 

 clearly the degree in which civilization prevails in any country, 

 than the state and condition of the female. 



In the following table, therefore, the person? educated are, iii 

 the first place, compared ^vith the total population between the 

 ages of five and ten; and secondly, with the total population be- 

 tween the ages of five and fifteen. These methods were adopted 

 on account of the population returns readily aflfording the number 

 of persons actually existing at those ages, at the time of the cenf 

 BUS. The counties and cities are not arranged in the order adoptel 

 in the preceding table, in conformity to the returns, but according 

 to the numerical values of the results indicating the state of edu* 

 cation. 



