THE STATE OF EDUCATION AND DENSITY OF THE POPULATION IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES COMPARED.
| Counties having great Ignorance and great density of Population. | Percentage above and below the Average. | Counties having little Ignorance and great density of Population. | Percentage above and below the Average. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In No. signing register with Marks. | In No. of Persons to 100 Acres. | In No. signing register with Marks. | In No. of Persons to 100 Acres. | ||
| Monmouth | †47 | † 9 | Middlesex | *55 | †2030 |
| Lancaster | †30 | †270 | Surrey | *47 | † 189 |
| Stafford | †30 | † 72 | Kent | *20 | † 28 |
| Worcester | †30 | † 13 | Gloucester | *12 | † 6 |
| Chester | †15 | † 31 | Durham | *10 | † 21 |
| Nottingham | †5 | † 12 | Warwick | * 5 | † 70 |
| Counties having little Ignorance and little density of Population. | Counties having great Ignorance and little density of Population. | ||||
| Cumberland | *37 | *59 | South Wales | †42 | *55 |
| Westmorland | *32 | *75 | Bedford | †40 | *12 |
| Northumb | *30 | *48 | North Wales | †37 | *60 |
| Devon | *20 | *30 | Hertford | †35 | *12 |
| Sussex | *15 | *25 | Essex | †25 | *29 |
| Southampton | *15 | *20 | Bucks | †22 | *37 |
| Dorset | *10 | *43 | Hunts | †22 | *49 |
| Oxford | * 2 | *26 | Rutland | †22 | *49 |
| Lincoln | * 2 | *51 | Salop | †20 | *42 |
| Derby | * 2 | *20 | Suffolk | †20 | *26 |
| Wilts | †20 | *44 | |||
| Norfolk | †15 | *32 | |||
| Cambridge | †12 | *28 | |||
| Cornwall | †12 | *16 | |||
| York | †10 | * 2 | |||
| Northampton | † 7 | *33 | |||
| Berks | † 5 | *15 | |||
| Hereford | † 2 | *63 | |||
| Leicester | † 2 | * 7 | |||
| Somerset | † 2 | *10 | |||
⁂ The rule appears to be, that those counties are the most ignorant in which the population is the least dense.