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Birthplace and Nationality. Ninety-two per cent. of the persons
enumerated in the County were born in England, about 3 per cent. in
the remainder of the British Isles, nearly 1 per cent. in the various
dominions, colonies, etc., and rather more than 3 per cent. in foreign
countries. The immigrants from Wales, Scotland and Ireland generally
bear relation to one another in proportion to the respective
populations of those countries, such difference as there is being slightly
in favour of Wales, whose contribution is rather higher, and against
Scotland, where it is lower than the others, Ireland occcupying a
position between the other two.
What then is the reason for the cheerful comments made by the
knights of the ink.pot in Fleet Street, who love to comment upon the
breadth of the highway leading from Scotland to England ? Possibly
it arises from the noise made by some of those who hail from the
Clyde area, or perhaps there is something in the story of "the heads
of departments."