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increased the latter class of persons from the other two classes, and 

 most particularly from that of agriculture. The same remark ap- 

 plies also to Glamorgan, Anglesea, and Carnarvon. The last- 

 mentioned county is also that which approximates the nearest, in 

 the state of its agricultural population, to that of the aggregate 

 population of the principality ; the same being found to be the case 

 in Radnor, for trade and manufactures ; and in Montgomery, for 

 that of the unproductive labourers. 



Of the thirty-two counties composing Scotland, it may be re- 

 marked, that eight are distinguished by an increase of their agri- 

 cultural population, and twenty-four by a diminution thereof; but 

 of the population devoted to trade and manufactures, twenty-four 

 counties have received increments, and the remaining eight decre- 

 ments. Sixteen also of the counties have received an augmenta- 

 tion to their non-productive members, and the remaining number 

 a diminution. 



The magnitudes of the numbers indicating the extreme changes 

 may considered as remarkable, when contrasted with the corre- 

 sponding results for England. Caithness, for example, is distin- 

 guished by an increment to its manufacturing population of 

 + 1903, and by a decrement to its agricultural members of 1802. 

 Renfrew has also increased its non-productive members by + 1276, 

 and Clackmannan diminished the same class by 2210. The 

 county distinguished by the least change in its agricultural popula- 

 tion is Dumfries; Selkirk in its families devoted to trade and 

 manufactures, and Peebles in the class of its non-productive mem- 

 bers. The families devoted to agriculture in Peebles, approach 

 also the nearest to the change of the aggregate population of the 

 first class; Selkirk also in its trading and manufacturing, and 

 Perth in its non-productive, members, to the respective changes in 

 the aggregate members of the corresponding classes. Caithness 

 presents also an example of a remarkable decrement in its agricul- 

 tural population, and of a more considerable increase in its manu- 

 facturing members ; but only a very moderate decrement in its 

 negative members. Clackmannan likewise has very rapidly di- 

 minished the latter cbss, increased in a very great degree its 



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