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Great Britain and Ireland are about equal. It was shown that 

 the percentage of population of these t\vo countries taken 

 together was greater than the percentages of population of the 

 rest of the foreign countries. The percentage of German popu- 

 lation greatelj increased between 1850 and 1860. 



Table 1. — Percentages of native and foreign horyi population . 



1850. 



I860. 



Native. 



Foreign . 



Native. 



Foreign, 



Argyle 



Belmont 



Benton 



Blanchard 



Darlington 



Elk Grove 



Fayette , 



Gratiot 



Kendall 



Monticello 



New Diggings 



Seymour 



Shullsburg 



Wayne 



White Oak Springs.. 



Willow Springs 



Wiota 



Average for county] 



1870. 



Native. 



Foreign . 



36 



32 

 79 

 40 

 20 

 35 

 24 

 22 

 33 

 24 

 38 

 45 

 35 

 12 

 29 

 30 

 28 



30 



In Table 1 the percentages of the entire native and foreign 

 bom for each town and for each census are given. In 1850 the 

 percentage of native bom population for the entire country was 

 60 ; of the foreign bom population, 40. By 1870, the native 

 born population had increased to 70 per cent. ; the foreign bom 

 had decreased to 30 per cent. 



Of the towns whose boundaries did not change, Benton had 

 39 peT cent, native born in 1850, and 61 per cent, in 1870, a 

 gain of 22 per cent. Of foreign bom population, Benton had 

 61 per cent, in 1850, and 39 per cent in 1870. ]^ew Dig- 



