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Rh from the preceding details the proportion of the instructed to the uninstructed adult population—

The total adult population is the population, male and female above 14 years of age, including the students both of Hindu and Mahomedan schools of learning as being generally above that age; and the instructed adult population is the total number of those who were ascertained to possess any kind or degree of instruction from the lowest grade to the highest attainments of learning. The result is a natural consequence of the degree of instruction found to exist amongst the juvenile population, and is confirmatory of the proportions given in p. 232. The Culna thana of the Burdwan district in which the highest proportion of juvenile instruction was found is that also in which the highest proportion of adult instuction is found, viz., about nine in every 100, leaving 91 of the adult population wholly uninstructed. The Bhawara thana of the Tirhoot district in which the lowest proportion of juvenile instruction was found is that also in which the lowest proportion of adult instruction is found, viz., two and three-tenths in every 100, leaving 97 and seven-tenths of the adult population wholly uninstructed. The intermediate proportions have also a correspondence, thana Jehanabad having a proportion of less than five, and thana Daulatbazar a proportion of more than four, in every 100 possessing some kind and degree of instruction, leaving about 95 in the former and 96 in the latter wholly uninstructed; while thana Nanglia has a proportion of five and three-tenths and the city of Moorshedabad a proportion of 7 in every 100 possessing some instruction, leaving 94 and seven-tenths in the former and 92, in the latter wholly uninstructed. Thus in the comparison of one locality with another of the state of adult