PREFACE. X1U 



vantage which, consequently, the British agri- 

 culturist intending to emigrate, would reap 

 from the employment of his capital and skill 

 in that country. 



Having taken occasion to make a compari- 

 son on the subject of emigration, between Up- 

 per Canada and the United States, the writer 

 would here remark, that it may be supposed 

 any prepossessions he had on that subject, must 

 naturally have been on the side of a colony 

 belonging to his own country. 



But, on examining the matter on the spot, 

 he found the difficulties and discouragements 

 which settlers of moderate capital encounter 

 in Upper Canada, are as yet so formidable, 

 and the advantages to persons of whatever 

 amount of capital, settling in the United 

 States, comparatively so great, that he was 

 called upon not to withhold the opinion he had 

 formed, but to contribute what that opinion 

 might be deemed worth, in preventing the se- 

 rious disappointments which often is the lot 

 of agricultural emigrants to the former coun- 

 try. 



