typical year previous to 1890 with one of the latest years. The year
1882 was the year, previous to 1890, of maximum immigration into this
country. During that year we received 788,000 immigrants. Nearly all, as
the table which we are about to give will show, came from countries of
Northern Europe. In order to contrast the sources of our immigration a
quarter of a century ago with the present sources, we will compare the
year 1882 with the year 1907, which thus far has been the year of
maximum immigration into the United States,--the total number of
immigrants for 1907 being 1,285,000:


IMMIGRATION, 1882.
Per cent.

Great Britain and Ireland ................. 179,423 22.8
Germany ................................... 250,630 31.7
Scandinavia ............................... 105,326 13.3
Netherlands, France, Switzerland, etc. .... 27,795 3.5

Total Western Europe ...................... 71.3

Italy ..................................... 32,159 4.1
Austria-Hungary ........................... 29,150 3.7
Russia, etc. .............................. 22,010 2.7

Total Southern and Eastern Europe ......... 10.5

All other countries ....................... 18.2
[Footnote: 1. Of the immigration from
"other countries" 98,295 was from British