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more direct, and, since the formation of the railway, is 

 also much the quicker route. 



The number of emigrants who landed at New York in 

 the years 184S and 1849 respectively, were 



In 1848, 

 In 1849, 



Of these there were from 



Ireland, 



England, 



Scotland, 



Wales, .... 



Total from Great Britain ) 

 and Ireland, . . J 



Germany, 



Holland, Norway, and Sweden 



France, .... 



A very large majority of the European population, 

 which is flowing to the United States, comes, therefore, 

 from the United Kingdom. Germany sends out more 

 than any other country of continental Europe. In con- 

 sidering the effect of the vast numbers of Irish emi- 

 grants upon the population of North America, it is of 

 consequence to notice that of the Teutonic races, includ- 

 ing the English, German, Scotch, Dutch, and Scandi- 

 navian : there are almost as many as there are of the 

 Celts. The Irish emigrants, also, are by no means all 

 of pure Celtic blood. As a whole, therefore, these emi- 

 grants would produce a valuable mixed population were 

 they to be settled indiscriminately, and intermingled by 

 marriage in succeeding generations. This, however, is 

 to a certain extent prevented, by the natural tendency 

 of people of the same country to flock together, and to 

 settle near each other. Thus, as the French prepon- 

 derate in Lower Canada and Louisiana, the Germans in 

 Pennsylvania and parts of Ohio, the Dutch in some 



