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REMARKS ON EMTGRATION. 
against it, both from the nature of the service, 
and the character of the great body of its inha- 
bitants. My regiment has since quitted its shores, 
but I am aware there are few of them who 
would not gladly return. The feeling I have in its 
favour arises not, therefore, from the services in 
which I was employed, but from circumstances 
in the colony itself ; and I yet hope to form one 
of its community, and to join a number of va- 
luable and warm-hearted friends whom I left in 
that distant part of the world. 
On the subject of emigration, it is not my 
intention to dwell at any length. My object 
in these preliminary remarks has been to give 
the reader a general idea of the country, into 
the interior recesses of which I am about to 
lead him. Still, however, it may be useful to 
ofler a few general observations on a topic which 
has, of late years, become so interesting to the 
British public. 
The main consideration with those who, pos- 
sessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the 
means of improving their condition, is, the so- 
ciety likely to be found in the land fixed on for 
their future residence. One of the first ques- 
tions I have been asked, when conversing on 
