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Women. 

 100,588 

 115,514 

 134,472 

 155,009 

 177,047 

 183,922 

 193,006 

 192,637 

 175,571 

 173,312 



We are also able to separate the Oornislimen living in tlie 

 United Kingdom out of the county according to sex, and again 

 the Cornish folk who have gone abroad, and it is not unnatural 

 that while the men have always exceeded the women as emigrants 

 from the county, the proportion of men to women going abroad 

 is so overwhelming that the women left in the United Kingdom 

 have exceeded the men emigrating into the same area. 



1861-71. 1871-81. 1881-1891. 



Men. Women. Men. Women. Men. Women. 



ToUnited ) ^^23 9,767 9,807 17,644 3,830 5,507 

 Kingdom ) ' ' ' ' 



Abroad .. 25,195 16,710 29,127 19,033 23,070 15,716 



Other inquiries might be pursued, and I should be glad if 

 these speculations provoke anyone to take them up and carry 

 them farther. It would be especially interesting if we could 

 trace, in any degree, what proportion of our countrymen have 

 helped to people our Colonies. 



But I have brought forward facts enough to show that if 

 we have to recognise a diminution of population at home, which 

 may not have yet been arrested, we can turn to the contemplation 

 of an ample army of Cornish folk and their descendents abroad, 

 so that wherever we go we may meet kinsmen as well as friends. 



