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The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe, and the Crusades, produced numberless accounts, partly true and partly fabulous, of the wonders seen in Eastern countries.--Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry, Vol. I.
Immigration has doubtless been a prolific source of multiplying words.--Hamilton, Nugæ Literariæ, p. 381.
Mr. Pickering, in his Vocabulary, observes that this word, as well as immigrant, and the verb to immigrate, were first used in this country by Dr. Belknap, in his History of New Hampshire, who gives his reasons for their use. Immigrant is original with Dr. B.; but the others have long been used by good English authors, though of course less frequently than by American writers, who have more need of them.
Ind. The common abbreviation for Indiana.