Excerpt from The Tide of Immigration Immigration has not only its Spring tide and its annual ebb but also its neap tides, its flood tides, its tidal waves, and its overflows and inundations. It has its tide channels by means of which it gains entrance to this country. It has its tide gates, its tide-rip, its tide mills, its tide basin. There have developed tide tables and tide dials, and also tide gauges by means of which we are able to measure its volume at any particular time or over a period of years or decades; to learn of its racial, occu pational, age, and sex composition; to know its geographical distribution within the country, and to become familiar with its other characteristics. First, as to the volume of this inpouring of pe0p1es. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.