NOTES. 475 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 ,) Sutherland, Argyleshire,and Ross-shire; Inverness -shire sent settlers to Georgia, to Nova Scotia , to Prince Edward Island , and to ; Glengary, and some other places in 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 movements less observable, the same feelings still direct those who leave their mother land. More than 50,000 left the United Kingdom, for various parts of , during the year 1830. About 30,000 of this number went to ; the rest to the United States. Note D, page 459. 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