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PREFACE. 



THE privations and distress of the manufacturing districts, 

 and the embarrassments of the farming interests, combined 

 with the attention turned towards Emigration as a remedy 

 for the evil, has induced the Author of this work, to endea 

 vour to supply the apparent want of practical and authentic 

 information respecting the superior advantages of Upper 

 Canada, by detailing his personal narrative, from leaving 

 England to settling in that province. It will be found to 

 comprise his passage out to the United States, with six 

 months travels and residence therein; upwards of four 

 years sojourn in Upper Canada, his travels through Lower 

 Canada, and return to England, via Ireland. He has en 

 deavoured to detail a clear statement of facts, with remarks 

 on the soil and climate of America, the customs and man 

 ners and a particular description of the methods of clear 

 ing the soil and cultivating the land, with the prices of stock, 

 g-rain, &c. He has also given a comparative statement of 

 the views held out by the United States and Upper Canada, 

 as the best for British Emigrants ; in which he flatters him 

 self that the superior advantages of the latter to farmers, 



farm-labourers, and most useful tradesmen, will be fully 



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