236 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT

ther north, it will be observed; and in 1910 Cuban, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Turkish (probably meaning mostly
Syrian), Canadian, Greek, Swedish, Irish, Scotch, Russian and Roumanian. This great increase of West Indian and southern European immigration in thirty years indicates quite a deterioration in quality; but if we leave out Hillsborough County, which had over four-fifths of all the foreigners in central Florida, the percentage of foreign whites in 1910 was only 2.24, and the leading nationalities English, German, Canadian, Swedish, Irish, Scotch, Italian, Greek, Danish, Russian and French; which is not very different from the percentage or the sequence in 1880, when Tampa was a very small place. In the city of Tampa in 1910 the order was Cuban, Italian, Spanish, German, English, Canadian, Roumanian, Irish, Russian, Greek, Swedish, French, Austrian, Scotch, Mexican, Swiss, Danish. (Some religious statistics for Tampa are given farther on.)
 Recent Federal censuses have not distinguished between native and foreign-born negroes, but in 1915 a little less than I% of the negroes in central Florida were of foreign origin, doubtless mostly from the Bahamas and West Indies.
 In i88o only 59.9% of the inhabitants of central Florida were born in Florida, 14.2% in Georgia, 10.2% in South Carolina, 3% in Alabama, 1.8% in North Carolina, o.9% in Virginia, and smaller numbers in the other states. Marion County had more South Carolinians than Georgians, strange to say.* Unfortunately there are no similar data in later -censuses, either Federal or State, except for whole states and for cities with more than 50,ooo inhabitants. The State census of 1915 made inquiry as to the birthplace of each individual and his or her parents, but did not publish the results, except as to the number of persons born in and out of the United States. If the data could be tabulated separately for whites and negroes, for adults and children, and for farmers and city people, some very interesting results would be obtained.


 *See Seventh Annual Report, p. 124. At present Ohioans seem to be very largely represented, especially west of the lake region, and Kentuckians in the lake region.