of the United States and Territories of North America. 
males, and likewise to the class of 45 and upwards. The first 
three classes, for both sexes, in the table devoted to the former 
census, exhibit likewise a close approximation to equality. Causes, 
therefore, somewhat of an uniform kind, have probably operated 
in Georgia during these periods, on particular classes of the two 
sexes. 
Perhaps the most singular class of increments in the whole 
series, is that belonging to Alabama. Among the males, the 
most striking examples of disparity will be perceived to exist 
in the first three classes, and the two latter. The third class 
has an increment of 215.1 per cent., and the last only 62; 
the latter an increment large, when regarded as indicating the 
rate of increase during so short a period as ten years, but small, 
when contrasted with so great an increment as the former. Such 
increments afford the means of discovering to which class of per- 
sons the province has been most indebted for its increase. It 
will be remarked, that the very large increments which belong 
to the third class, proves that a great number of young men 
must have emigrated to this territory, carried thither by the tide 
of fortune, and the adventurous spirit which the young possess. 
The increments of the first and second classes may have been 
produced as necessary consequences of the fourth and fifth ; for 
these, consisting probably of by far the greater part of married 
persons, necessarily carried with them their families, and which 
circumstance contributed to give that impulse to the first and 
second increments, which they appear to have received. Per- 
haps some portion of the large increment of the third class may 
be attributed to this cause. It is very remarkable, however, 
that the state of Missisippi, which would seem to be almost as 
much subject to the uncertain influences of immigration as Ala- 
bama, should present results so very different from those last 
mentioned. For instance, the minimum increments for each 
sex are found in the class of 45 and upwards, in the territory of 
Alabama ; whereas in that of Missisippi, the maximum incre- 
ments of each sex are to be found in that class. The anoma- 
lies, also, which will be found to arise from comparing any cor- 
responding ages together, in the states last mentioned, are very 
remarkable. If we select, by way of example, the first and last 
classes, for each sex, as in the following Table, 
