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Show 160 WHERE THE MORMONS rect information from their records. For weeks he was a constant visitor at the historian's office in Salt Lake City ; besides having the confidence of their prominent men, he through them learned much of their history, which he has given to the public in his elaborate work the u City of the Saints," carefully avoiding, however, all unfavorable allusion that it was possible to avoid. About emigration he says : " I now proceed to figures, which can easily be verified by reference to Liverpool. From 1840 to 1854 they reck oned seventeen thousand one hundred and ninety- five souls, and from 1854 to 1855, four thousand seven hundred and sixteen souls, the total in fifteen years ( i84O-* 55) being twenty- one thousand nine hundred and eleven. From 1855 to 1856 they number four thousand three hundred and ninety- five souls, and from the ist of July 1857 to 3otn f June 1860, they count two thousand four hundred and thirty- three, making for the five subsequent years ( i855-' 6o) a total of six thousand eight hundred and twenty- eight. Thus in twenty years between i84O-' 6o they ' show a grand total of twenty- eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine immigrants." I have already said that three- fourths of this immigration was from Great Britain, and give as an example the nation alities of the people that arrived between the years 1857-^ 60 as recorded by the same writer : " From the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland English, one thousand and seventy- four 5 Scotch one hundred and twenty- six; Welsh one hundred and seventy- three ; Irish twelve. The total number from the Scandinavian missions is seven hund red and sixty- two, of which there are five hundred and twenty- eight Danes, one hundred and ninety- three Swedes, and forty- one Norwegians. The total number from the Swiss and Italian missions is two hundred and eleven, of which two hundred and nine are from the Swiss Cantons, and two from Italy. There are also two French, and three Germans, and seventy Elders returning home from missions, making a grand total of two thousand four hundred and thirty- three." Since 1860 other missions have been estab lished in addition ' to those reported above. |