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The first tiling" thing to be remarked with respect to the last 

 table is, the order of the places selected for observation, it being 

 the same in all the provinces for the results deduced for the popu- 

 lation between the ages of five and ten, as for those between five 

 and fifteen, with the exception of a trifling anomaly in Leinster, 

 relating to the town of Drogheda and the county of Kilkenny. 

 This variation, however, from the law of uniform.ity is so very 

 inconsiderable, that it can scarcely be regarded as an interruption 

 of it ; and the intensity of education^ as deduced for the total po- 

 pulation between the ages of five and ten, may therefore be re- 

 garded as proportional to that between five and fifteen ; the rela- 

 tion being in general terms that of two to one. 



In the four provinces the maximum and minimum intensities, 

 or the places in which education abounds in the greatest and 

 least degrees, may be exliibited as follows : 



and from which it appears, as before remarked, that education is 

 most generally diffused in towns, and in the least degree over the 

 wide surfaces of counties. Its intensity, however, in towns, is not 

 uniform, it varying in the population between 5 and 15, from 1 in 

 ^, to 1 in 3.6. If we consider the blessings of education confined 

 to the population between the ages of 5 and 10, the city of Kilkenny 

 will present the interesting example of the whole of its children 

 being educated ; but if we embrace all the adults from 5 to 15, 

 then only half the children enjoy the advantages of instruction. In 

 the county of Mayo it will also be found that only 2 in 9 are edu- 

 cated, according to the former of these suppositions, and only 3 in 



