[ 439 ] CHAPTER II. PRACTICAL REMARKS ON EMIGRATION. In , Industry secures independent Circumstances—Prospects of Emigrants generally sanguine, and seldom realized—Necessary Considera¬ tions before emigrating—Causes of Emigration—Love of Adventure- Poverty—Discontent—Early Marriages and Pauperism in Ireland—Emi¬ gration at the Public Expenses—Respective Advantages of the several Colonies—Classification of Persons to whom affords Inducements to emigrate—Necessary Articles required by Settlers—Precautions as to engaging Passages—" White Slave Trade"—Disease and consequent Calamity on Board of Passenger Ships—Irish Emigration to Brazil —Di ¬ rections to Emigrants after landing—Various Means of Employment point¬ ed out—Plans to raise Passage Money— General Condition of the Inhabit¬ ants of America—Prospects which Industrious Settlers may realize, &c—Notes. In , as well in the United States as in the British possessions, notwithstanding all the difficul¬ ties with which an emigrant has to contend, it is a well-established fact, supported by the opinion of all who have observed the conduct, and marked the pro¬ gress of new settlers, from the first planting of until the present time, that all those who have settled on wilderness lands, if their habits have been industrious, frugal, and persevering, have, with few exceptions, and in general only when ill health interfered, succeeded in rising from a state of