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the balance will still be found amply large enough to justify 

 all our conclusions. 



For our American statistics we are chiefly indebted 

 to that valuable compilation, " The American Almanack 

 for 1879," by Mr- ■^- R- Spofford, to which we beg to 

 refer those who may doubt the accuracy of our figures. 



Cassell, I'cuer, (Jalpin & Co., telle Sauvage Works, LcDdon, E.C. 



