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THE EMIGRANTS to Australia "have generally consisted of the pick of the labouring classes, male and female, of the United Kingdom, and in this respect they compare favourably with the unselected and heterogeneous masses who have gone to America of their own free will," according to Henry Cornish. An Anglo-Indian journalist and lawyer from Madras, Cornish published this glowing observation in Under the Southern Cross in 1880 after a visit to Australia.
He may have been biased and "tri-umphalist" in the spirit of the day, but several other references in Eric Richards' sweeping account of four centuries of British diaspora, Britannia's Children, also point to ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Those who went across the seas.(emigrants)