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THE BKITISII ISLES. 



strongly represented in London than in their own county town. Having no 

 focus of attraction of its own, the rui'al population flocks to London, or to 

 some other manufacturing or commercial city. Whilst in Kerry, Mayo, and 

 Donegal, in Ireland, not ô per cent, of the inhabitants are born beyond the limits 

 of these counties, and the local clement of the population in the remainder of 

 Ireland as well as in many agricultural districts of England amounts to four- 

 fifths of the total population, there are other counties — such as Middlesex, Surrey, 



Fig. 215. — Increase or Decrease of the Population, 1861 — 1871. 

 Accordms to E. G. Ravenstein. 



WofG, 



Decrease. 



Increase. 



OtolO 

 per cent. 



10 to 20 

 per cent. 



Yorkshire, Dumbartonshire, Renfrew, Lanarkshire, or Edinburghshire, all of 

 them abounding in coal or in large towns — where less than three-fifths of the 

 resident inhabitants are natives.* 



It is only natural that the death rate in the towns should exceed that of most 



* In 1871 24,152,802 persons resided within the counties in which they were born, being 76-36 per 

 cent, of the total population of the British Isles. These constituted the "local element" of our map. 

 According to birthplaces there were 21,8-19,518 natives of England and Wales, 3,296,387 of Scotland, 

 6,085,395 of Ireland, 139,322 of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, and 258,677 persons born 

 abroad and at sea. 



