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Table of Contents of The Great Migration: the Atlantic crossing by sailingship since 1770

by

Edwin Clarence Guillet

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	                                CONTENTS

			I THE BRITISH BACKGROUND                      1
		       II STATE REGULATION OF PASSENGER VESSELS      1O
		      III ASSISTED EMIGRATION                        20
                       IV UNASSISTED EMIGRATION-PREPARING FOR A NEW
                           LAND                                      34
                        V PROCEEDING TO THE SEAPORT                  43
                       VI ARRANGING FOR THE VOYAGE                   47
                      VII FAREWELL TO THE OLD LAND                   58
                     VIII DAILY LIFE IN THE STEERAGE                 66
                       IX  STORM AND MISERY                          81
                        X  CHOLERA AND SHIP FEVER                    89
                       XI  THE TANG OF THE SEA                       99
                      XII  THE CABIN PASSAGE                        109
                     XIII  SHIPWRECK AND DISASTER                   I24
                      XIV  NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE GULF                138
                       XV  "PURIFICATION" AT GROSSE ISLE            145
                      XVI  QUEBEC AND MONTREAL                      155
                     XVII  ASCENDING THE ST. LAWRENCE               164
                    XVIII  ENTERING NEW YORK                        179
                      XIX  THE HUDSON ROUTE                         192
                       XX  PROCEEDING TO THE SETTLEMENT             204
                      XXI  THE PROMISED LAND                        215
                     XXII  THE PASSING OF THE SAILING-SHIP          233
                           SUPPLEMENT                               287

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