PREFACE. XV 



If the writer is right in suggesting that pre- 

 ference, it must, to those who coincide with 

 him, be satisfactory to find, what now appears, 

 t hat the tide of Transatlantic emigration has 

 of late been setting strongly in the direction 

 he recommends. 



But whatever may be deemed best, with re- 

 gard to the destination of British emigrants, 

 it is to be regretted that adequate measures 

 are not adopted by the government or the le- 

 gislature, for encouraging and aiding emigra- 

 tion, to an extent sufficient to obviate the dis- 

 tress which an excess of population has creat- 

 ed and is daily producing in this country. 

 And although, under existing circumstances, 

 Upper Canada does not certainly hold out to 



the wages and an improvement of the condition of those 

 who remained at home ; next in the increased demand for 

 British manufactures, -which the increased population of 

 America would create ; and, lastly, by the strengthening 

 of those ties of kindred and connection between the peo- 

 ple of the two countries, which would make all their 

 friendly relations stronger and stronger, and make fu- 

 ture wars between them more and more difficult, if not 

 impossible" Vol. ii. 416. 



