Degree of Education	Five years and upwards.
	1870.		1881.
	Total.	Per cent.	Total.	Per cent.
Read and Write	13,299	67.20	19,537	76.41
Read only	2,556	12.91	2,412	9.43
Cannot read or write	3,933	19.87	3,396	13.28
Unspecified			222	0.87