23^ REMARKS ON EMIGRATION. 



diseases are likely to occur, should he be sceptical on 

 the actual point of their existence. 



Leaving* then the point of location considered gen- 

 erally, and believing that enough has been 'already 

 said to convince any impartial enquirer that the 

 Lower Province does possess some qualifications, 

 which, at hast, entitle it to our consideration ; let 

 us next examine the point of location in the only 

 remaining view, in that oi special generality. 



No doubt, one of the ereat indticemonts to emifrra- 

 ting to Upper Canada has been the universality of 

 language which is spoken there, and that this is a 

 very good reason no one we think will deny Lower 

 Canada, from its origfin to the present time, has been 

 altogether, or nearly so, occupied by French or their 

 Canadian descendants, and the French language con- 

 sequently has been and is now spoken by a vast 

 majority of the inhabitants. With the exception of 

 the greater part of the Eastern Townships , the agri- 

 cultural inhabitants of the remainder may be said to 

 be entirely of French origin, preserving the language, 

 habits, customs, &c. of the original settlers. 



These "townships" then would, at first sight, 

 present themselves to the emigrants, and what with 

 the exertions of the British American Land Company 

 whose great purchases from the Government are con- 

 fined to this district ; the enterprize of the Yankees, 

 and the salubrity of the climate, the fertility of the 

 soil, and the varied admixture of hill and dale, they 

 have already acquired a high and, we think, deserved 

 reputation. 



Lying on the south side of the St. Lawrence, and 

 joining on the south-east the border line between the 

 United States and Lower Canada, riqhly wooded, 

 traversed with rivers and lakes, navigable for large 

 boats) &c. through a great part of their course ; a soil 

 of various qualities, but generally rich, and remarkable 

 for its depthy thriving villages, provisions extremely 

 cheap, and labour always in request — situated at the 

 apex of a triangle, whose base is marked by Sorel 

 (William Henry). Three Rivers, Quebec and Mon- 

 treal, the great market ports of the Lower Province, 



