EMIGRATION. 
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upwards, particularly in Upper Canada, to 
royalists and others, who have at different pe¬ 
riods emigrated from the United States. These 
people have all of them improved their several 
allotments. By withholding any better title, 
therefore, than that of a certificate, they are 
completely tied down to their farms, unless, 
indeed, they think proper to abandon them, 
together with the fruits of many years labour, 
without receiving any compensation whatso¬ 
ever for so doing. 
It is not probable, however, that these peo¬ 
ple, if they had a clear title to their lands, 
would return back to the United States; the 
royalists, who were driven out of the country 
by the ill treatment of the other inhabitants, 
certainly would not; nor would the others, 
who have voluntarily quitted the country, re¬ 
turn, whilst self-interest, which led them ori¬ 
ginally to come into Canada, operated in favour 
of their remaining there. It was the prospect 
of getting land on advantageous terms, which 
induced them to emigrate; land is still a 
cheaper article in Canada th^an in the United 
States; and as there is much more waste land 
in the former, than in the latter country in 
proportion to the number of the inhabitants, 
it will probably continue so for a length of time 
to come. In the United States, at present, it 
is impossible to get land without paying for it; 
