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 Rh To the portion of the public interested in the subject of emigration, the minute and regular details afforded in the following pages are most important, especially when they may be depended upon as critically true.

The writer neither wishes to promote nor to discourage emigration to his own settlement; he has no personal interest in communicating facts,—these, therefore, constitute a valuable and certain testimony.

In my very humble capacity of Editor, I have experienced little difficulty, except in the encounter of a few Latin quotations.

My readers are already aware of my often acknowledged ignorance of the dead, or learned languages, as they are termed: the quotations of a market note are such, indeed, even in my own language, as I am most familiar with. To me, therefore, those of Horace, Virgil, &c. are totally unintelligible.

But happily for my Editorial fame, one of my sons, a student in Trinity College, Dublin, has been with me during the vacation, and has