But this vessel had sailed since the regulating act.

Nay, even in the last year the deaths on shipboard would be found to have been between ten and eleven per cent.

on the whole number exported.

In truth, the House could not reach the cause of this mortality by all their regulations.

Until they could cure a broken heart--until they could legislate for the affections, and bind by their statutes the passions and feelings of the mind, their labour would be in vain.
Such were the evils of the Passage.