There is much other very sound Chinese historical evidence in favour of themigration view, and it has been best summarized in an excellent little work in German, by Rev.
Ts'in and Tsin, for some unknown reason, forced the Tartars of Kwa Chou to migrate into China, which migration was subsequently alluded to by a Tartar chief (when attending a Chinese durbar in 559 B.
After the purchase of Louisiana thousands of settlers joined the ever-swelling tide of westward migration which had been set in motion by the early pioneers.
Discouraged by this setback the party returned to the nearest settlement, and for a while longer the migration westward was postponed.
This is the only kind of reform that would really popularise work on the land from the point of view of the poor man and help to check the wholesale migration to the towns.
Jim Cole is considerably out of place in the factory crowd; ill-health and other misfortunes were the cause of his migration to the railway town.
Had he been really actuated by the desire, he would surely have specified it to the mother of the children, as the strongest conceivable argument for bringing her to his mind respecting the migration to Italy.
It is by no means improbable that about this time there was a Brit-Welsh migration into Ireland, as well as into Brittany.
The first migration probably took place about 450.
But the trend of this mightymigration will not be pent between mathematical lines of limitation, and the direction of prevailing winds may turn the numberless hosts and divert them from their line of march.
Whales follow their annual migration as regularly as do moose and caribou on land, the seal and salmon in the Pacific.
In spring a return migration to the poplar takes place, and galls are again established.
Observers in other countries have noted that there is a summer migration of winged females to cruciferous plants, where colonies are established, and whence there is a return migration during the autumn to the original host.
The manuscript describing the Aztec migration was published in Kingsborough, Schoolcraft, Prescott, (Mex.
In this painting we have not only the number of years spent in the migration, and at each stopping-place, but the years are named according to the system described in the last chapter, and the migration began in the year Ce Tecpatl.
Their migration is more definitely described than that of any other of the many who are said to have come from the same direction, and has been considered by different writers to be a migration from California, New Mexico, or Asia.
I have already made known my scepticism respecting national American migrations in general, and the Toltec migration southward in particular, and there is nothing in the annals of Guatemala to modify the views previously expressed.
The migrationis not brought down to the arrival in Tenochtitlan, but the chronology is perfectly recorded.
That Jacob had many servants before his migration into Egypt, we learn from Gen, xxx.
Until his migration to the Scottish capital, at the age of fifteen, Ramsay was employed, during his spare hours, in assisting his stepfather in the work of the farm.
This would allow of a northward migration of such terrestrial animals during the summer-time, when there would be an ample supply of food and a suitably high temperature, and a southward recession towards the approach of winter.
At higher points in the ascent we encountered emigrants from Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Kentucky, which denotes the wide range of the spirit of migration at the era.
Thirdly, another wave of migration evidently came southward along the Des Chutes River, upon the great plateau of the lakes, which conclusion is borne out by a similarity of languages and customs, as well as by traditions.
Nor do I wish to be understood as attempting to sustain the popular theory of an Aztec migration from the north; on the contrary, the evidence of language is all on the other side.
The interest and striking features of the migration were undoubted, but the heroism was not at first so clear.
Hendrik was loud in acknowledging that it was a most splendid feat, and also in regretting that he had not been on the ground to witness the wonderful migration of the springboks.
The scarcity of game, caused by the migration of the locusts, had no doubt rendered them more than usually ravenous, and in consequence the cattle became their prey.
A migration of the springbok antelope, a "trek-boken," had swept over the spot.
Might it not be the dust raised by a great herd of antelopes,--a migration of the springboks, for instance?
We could not learn what becomes of the gavanes during the swellings of the Orinoco, and why they do not accompany the patos careteros in their migration from the Orinoco to the Rio Branco.
It is, however, the shade and humidity, rather than the distance from the coast, which oppose the migration of the cactuses southward.
The migration of the Toltecs, the most ancient historical event on the tableland of Mexico, dates only in the sixth century of our era.
On the other hand, however, we have to consider that the dispersion andmigration of insects is much more easily effected than that of mammals or even of birds.
Here we see plainly the course of the migration which has been going on for hundreds or thousands of years, and is still going on at the present day.
Obviously this is impossible in latitudes where the winter is severe, and it involves migration to a warmer climate.
The southward migration may be begun in Canada when the butterflies gather together in enormous flocks that remind one of the gathering of the clans with the migrating birds.
As such migration is likely to happen whenever a species becomes extremely abundant it probably is Nature's way of providing for an extended food supply for the succeeding generations.
There is, however, a regularly recurring annual migration on the part of some butterflies which is also a phenomenon of extraordinary interest.
Recent investigations by Osterhout and others indicate, however, that Overton's hypothetical lipoid membrane is not essential to a proper explanation of the migration into and out of the cell protoplasm of nutritive materials, etc.
The migration or importation of such persons as the several States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Legislature prior to the year 1808.
The result has been that, instead of a universal migration of the young people to America, numbers of them have been attached to Hawaiian soil.
