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Wherever a few families from any particular parish or shire went, others usually followed. Thus various parts of the Caro- linas attracted swarms of emigrants from the Outer Hebrides, (Lewis, Uist, and Barra,) Sutherland, Argyleshire, and Ross-shire; Invemess-sbire sent settlers to Georgia, to Nova Scotia, to Prince Edward Island, and to Cape Breton; Glengary, and some other places in Upper Canada, were first settled by people from Lochaber, Glengary, and Keppoch, in Scotland, who first emigrated to the southern colonies, but were afterwards forced away by the disturb- ances which attended the American revolution.

This was the visible course of emigration for some time after its commencement; and though in a more general way, and its dis- tinct movementsless observable, the same feelings still direct those who leave their mother land. More than 50,000 left the United Kingdom, for various parts of America, during the year 1830. About 30,000 of this number went to British America; the rest to, the United States.

NOTE D, page ZL59.

THE following extract from the late Passengers’ act, may be use- ful to emigrants :—

“ 1. No ship to carry more than three persons for every four tons of its burden; and to have five feet and a half between plat- form and deck ; two children under fourteen, or three under seven, or one child under one year, and the mother, to be computed as one passenger.

“ 2. Ship, to be provided with fifty gallons pure water, and at least fifty pounds oatmeal, biscuit, &c., for each passenger.

“ 3. Ships having the full number of passengers, to. carry no stores between decks; may occupy with stores between decks three cubic feet for each passenger less than the full number.

“ 4*. Shipmasters to deliver a list of passengers to the customs at port of sailing, and furnish a similar list at port of landing.

“ 5. Shipmasters landing passengers anywhere else than agreed upon, liable to a penalty of L.20, to be recovered before any two justices of the peace