GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 245

Mississippi were the only states east of the Mississippi River not represented. On the east coast the proportions are doubtless somewhat different, there being very likely more.New Yorkers and New Englanders there.
 Central Florida is not lacking in summer resorts also, such as Daytona, Pass-a-Grille, Cedar Keys, Silver Springs, Clay Springs, and Orange Springs, but no statistics of their patronage are available at this writing.
 ILLITERACY
 A crude measure of the educational equipment of the people is afforded by the statistics of illiteracy, which have been given by every United States census since 1840, but are not considered very trustworthy until recent decades. If the whole population, or any race or national or age group, could be graded according to education, or the number of years of schooling, each individual has had, a curve could be constructed from the results, and this curve would always be steepest in its higher parts (like those for school population and size of farms given farther on), for in every city, county, state or country there are always more persons below than above the average in education (as in age, wealth, etc.), just as there are more towns than cities, more gnats than camels, more herbs than trees in the forests, more creeks than rivers, and more hills than mountains. The illiteracy count gives only one point on such a curve, and that usually near the bottom, among white people in civilized communities at least, but it is much better than no information at all on the subject.
 The illiteracy percentage has been determined in different countries for adults, voters, army recruits, bridal couples, etc., but in this country the usual method is to ask of each person who has reached the age of ten years whether or not he can read and write. Formerly this was asked only of adults, but the 1910 census gives the data both for adult males and for all persons over io, subdividing each group according to race and nativity.
 Some comparisons between the urban and rural population with respect to illiteracy have already been given in Table 22. Table 24 gives for each region, the whole area and the whole State the illiteracy percentages for adult males in 1910 and for all persons over io at three different census periods, subdividing them by