130 PROSPECTS OF THE LABOUREE. 



land) for an able-bodied man, who can manage a pair 

 of horses, is £14 to £16 a-year, with board and lodging. 

 The wages in New Brunswick, therefore, even in the 

 depressed state of home agriculture, are not so much 

 greater as to induce the farm-labourer, who can obtain 

 employment, to emigrate to this colony for the purpose 

 of working as a labourer. But the prospective advan- 

 tage to him is, that he can obtain land for himself at 

 so cheap a rate, when — after working a year or two for 

 wages, (which I would recommend him contentedly to 

 do,) till he has obtained so much acquaintance with 

 the country and its customs as to enable him judiciously 

 to select a location for himself — he has saved money 

 enough to pay the first instalment for his land, and 

 keep his family during the first winter season. 



