28,665. Among this number are included all ages and all classes, and we have almost the complete record of entire burying-grounds. If in ancient times it had been the custom to erect monuments to all who died, and to record the ages in all cases, we could obtain an approximate idea of the relative average age at death in ancient and in modern times. To take Rome as an example, we have reason to believe that nearly all, of all ranks of society, who had lived beyond the age of infancy were honored with a monument, but the ages are not in all cases recorded. On an average only one out of three or four epitaphs records these.

I have made out a table of the percentage of deaths in Rome for the different periods of life. This we may compare with a corresponding table for modern Italy.1 In place of the .8 per cent which the epitaphs record as dying under one year of age, we will substitute 20 per cent, which we may infer from modern tables would not be far from the truth. The percentage for the different periods of life will then be as follows:

1 The table for modern Italy is from Mulhall's "Dictionary of Statistics," page 175. On the same page may be found similar tables for several other countries.