[289] Reply to M.J. O'Connell, Esq., M.P., W.H. Gregory, Esq., M.P., and John R. Godley, Esq., Secretaries to the Canadian Colonization Scheme; 9th of April, 1847.
[290] Taken from Thom's Almanack for 1853, p. 252. The census of 1851 only gives the emigration for the first three months of that year. The number of emigrants in 1852 was largely in excess of those of 1851.
[291] "At Quebec in particular, we read that 'the mortality is appalling;' it was denominated The Ship Fever."—British American Journal. "Upwards of £100,000 was expended in relieving the sick and destitute emigrants landed in Canada in 1847."—Nicholls' History of the Irish Poorlaw, p. 327—note.
[292] Dr. Stratten, in Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, quoted by Census Commissioners for 1851 in p. 305 of their Report on Tables of Deaths.
[293] "The Irish in America," by John Francis Maguire, p. 186.
[294] "Report of Commissioners of Emigration for the State of New York," quoted by Mr. Maguire.
[295] Dr. Stratten in "Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal."
[296] Twelve months' residence in Ireland during the Famine and the Public Works: by William Henry Smith, C.E., late conducting engineer of Public Works, p. 92.
[297] Report p. 27. Halliday pamphlets, vol. 1990.
[298] Report, pp. 29, 30.