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 REMARKS ON EMIGRATION. 



MORS PAIftTlCDLARLY APPLICABLE TO THE EASTSRN TOWNSHIPS, 



LOWER CANADA. 



By WUlxam F. Buchan, Late Surgeon to the First Cholera Hoapiiat. 

 Devonport : — Soper and Richards. 



Lands, like all other commodities, bear a value pro- 

 portionate to their situation, their intrinsic qualities, 

 and the demand for their produce. The proximity of 

 one district to a good road or navigable river ; their 

 adaptability to the raising of wheat or any other ar- 

 ticle always in demand ; and a market where, from 

 the occupations of different persons, agricultural pro- 

 duce is required, will necessarily induce persons who 

 have means to purchase in or near them ; \\hile those 

 who are less favoured by prosperity will as naturally 

 seek locations, or if not seek them, will he forced to 

 take lands or farms at a distance from the former; 

 and, although the qualities of the land be the same 

 in both cases, the one must, from necessity, adapt his 

 land to his local situation, as well as liis/}er«o/ia/ situa- 

 tion to the land. 



We take, for instance, a man coming into Canada 

 with a desire to live, to find subsistence for himself 

 and family— will he find any difficulty ? Impediments 

 he may, but they are easily overcome. Has he no 

 means — his labour will enable him^to lay by, in a year 

 or two, sufficient to buy a few acres of land, which 

 will, by his exertions, return him the wherewith to 

 subsist; and his spare time will, properly employed,' 

 procure him clothes and some nectasary luxuries. 

 This is an extreme case : but suppose two others 

 placed on farms — one well situated, as regards markets, 

 the other at a distance, let each follow the same plan, 

 let both raise wheat— the one will prosper, while the 

 other becoHK's impoverished — the one may succeed 

 in making money, although the prices of produce be 

 low — the other will sacrifice his property in the mere 

 carriage of his commodity to market. It is by such 

 misapplication of good principles of farming, to cir- 

 cumstances over which we have no controul, that has 

 tended to weaken men's minds; as to the relative ad- 

 vantages of the North American Colonies. 



