408 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA! 
and in parts of the country where the soil in 
rich., and where some settlements are already 
made, a tract of land, sufficient for a mode¬ 
rate farm, is scarcely to be procured under 
hundreds of dollars. In Canada, however, a 
man has only to make application to govern¬ 
ment ; and on his taking the oath of allegiance, 
he immediately gets one hundred acres of ex¬ 
cellent uncleared land, in the neighbourhood 
of other settlements, gratis; and if able to im¬ 
prove it directly, he can get even a larger 
quantity. But it is a fact worthy of notice, 
which banishes every suspicion relative to a 
diminution of the inhabitants taking place by 
emigrations into the States, that great num¬ 
bers of people from the States actually emigrate 
into Canada annually, whilst none of the Ca¬ 
nadians, who have it in their power to dis¬ 
pose of their property, emigrate into the Unit¬ 
ed States, except, indeed, a very few of those 
who have resided in the towns. 
According to the opinion of others, again, 
it is not for either of the purposes already men¬ 
tioned, that clear titles are withheld to the 
lands granted by the crown, but for that of 
binding down to their good behaviour the peo¬ 
ple of each province, more particularly the 
Americans that have emigrated from the States 
lately, who are regarded by many with an eye 
®£ suspicion, notwithstanding they have taken 
