332 Mr Harvey on the Increase of the Population 
riously displayed in the state of Louisiana, where the male in- 
crements of the first and second classes, although but little more 
than half the magnitude of the third, and, we may add, the 
fourth increment also, and therefore presenting no kind of uni- 
formity whatever; yet their means does not differ very widely, 
considering the magnitude of the increments, from the mean of 
the almost equally irregular increments of the females; the for- 
mer being 358.7, and the latter 342.9. It is remarkable, how- 
ever, that the maximum female increment should be found in 
the final class, corresponding in this respect with Ohio, Indiana, 
Missisippi, Michigan, and Columbia ; — Alabama being a singu- 
lar exception to the law. The maximum male increments are 
found in the third class, in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Louisi- 
ana, Alabama, Illinois, and Michigan, — confirming the remark 
before made, relative to the immigration of young mechanics. 
A more particular account of the maximum increments will be 
given in a succeeding page. 
Among the southern states, Louisiana, as has been already 
remarked, is distinguished by the magnitude of its increments, 
and also by the irregularity ot their character. The impulse which 
its male population has received in the third and fourth classes, 
are among the most striking of the results which the present 
survey has disclosed. Next to the increments of the last-men- 
tioned state, we may rank those of Tennessee, Kentucky, Geor- 
gia, and North Carolina, all of which present conclusions more 
or less interesting. Of the three remaining southern states, it is 
difficult to determine which is the greatest, from the uncertain 
nature of their increments. Of the two Carolinas, it may be 
observed, as somewhat singular, that the fourth and fifth incre- 
ments of males, and the second increments of females, should so 
closely agree, notwithstanding the results of the other ages bear 
no perceptible relation to each other. Georgia and Kentucky 
also correspond in the first and third classes of its males. The 
large increments, moreover, which both the sexes of 45 and up- 
wards received during this period in the two Carolinas, may not 
be unworthy of attention, particularly as they afford a striking 
contrast to the increments of some of the other ages. In Geor- 
gia, also, the first, third, and fourth classes of males, are respec- 
tively equal, or nearly so, to the corresponding classes of fe- 
