BANCROFT 



CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Present Position of Agriculturists in England. Continued Rise of Bent. In- 

 creased Rate of Wages not equally certain. Competition in the Hire of Land. 

 Whence it arises. Foreign Produce. That of Lands of superior Fertility 

 chiefly affects us. Increasing Value of Live Stock. Home Competition the 

 true Source of diminished Profits. Extent to which the Business of Farming 

 is giving place to other Occupations. Area of ordinary Farming thua cur- 

 tailed. Necessity for Farmers to thin the ranks of Home Competition. 

 Daily Consumption of Foreign Grain. Offers a Good Prospect to the Emi- 

 grant. The Prairies of Illinois a suitable Field for him. Their Advantages. 

 Price. Ague. Stock Farming and Indian Corn. Cost of Voyage and Jour- 

 ney. The present a very favourable Time 7 



LETTER I. 



Voyage in the " Persia." New York. The Hudson River. Barren Soil. Amer- 

 ican Railways. Saratoga. Extravagant Prices. Lake George. Lake Cham- 

 plain. Sunshine and Storm. Burlington in Vermont. Maine Liquor Law. 

 The Boundary Line. Poor French Canadians. The St. Lawrence. Montreal. 

 The Victoria Tubular Bridge. Grand Trunk Railway. Ottawa. The 

 Lumber Trade. Ottawa or Montreal as the Capital. Shorter Water Route to 

 the Western Lakes. Value of Land. Grants of Land. Prescott. Kingston. 

 Coburg. Process of clearing the Forest. Toronto. Hamilton. Complaint 

 of low Wages and want of Employment 13 



LETTER II. 



Falls of Niagara. Canada West. Mode of Farming. Short Wheat Crop. 

 Average Produce. London. Price of Land. Climate. Diseases produced 

 by Malaria. Rich Lands more subject to them^than poor. Proposed Route to 

 British Columbia. Red River and the Valley of the Saskatchewan. The 

 Hudson Bay Territory. Alleged Fertility of the Country. Failure of the 

 Selkirk Settlement. Plague of Grasshoppers. Mr. Kitson's Account of the 

 Settlement on Red River. Policy of Abandoning that Country to Canada. 

 Probable Over-estimate of its Value . 23 



