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had

no

sort of effect in

checking its progress. It is

indeed true that the

history of

last

years

emigration

at one

time

appeared

to

indicate that the larger

space

wao

requisite the

Australia" (where that

space

was

allowed having

been the first Ship which reached the West Indies

without

a

great loss of life.

But since that time two Chinese Ships have arrived in Trinidad in

which

allowed

Hastings In the

wax

12 feet only

the Lady Flora

and the "Clarendon'

former

the mortality

was not extrandinary and

in

in the latter it

wao

remarkably small being

even less than

less than in the

Australia: Finally

we

have already observed that although from the

continual recurrence

f

Cholera considerable loov

life has

occured in

the Calcutta Corly

many of Ships, yet

the health

the emigrants constantly

improved during the voyage from that fout (hewing that no

continuing disease was at work)

Самое

f

while in the

the Madras

in which

Emigration, such exceptional mortality

occurred

Cause

no

V the

average

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