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who come yearly into the country to “explore 
it/’ that return back solely because they can¬ 
not get lands with an indisputable title. I have 
repeatedly met with these people myself in 
Upper Canada, and have heard them express 
the utmost disappointment at not being able 
to get lands on such terms even for money; 
I have heard others in the States also speak to 
the same purport after they had been in Ca¬ 
nada. It is highly probable, moreover, that 
many of the people, who leave Great Britain 
and Ireland for America, would then be in¬ 
duced to settle in Canada instead of the United 
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States, and the British empire would not, in 
that case, lose, as it does now, thousands of 
valuable citizens every year. 
What are the general inducements, may 
here be asked, to people to quit Great Britain 
for the United States ? They have been sum¬ 
med up by Mr. Cooper *, in his letters pub¬ 
lished in 1794, on the subject of emigrating 
to America ; and we cannot have recourse, on 
the whole , to better authority. 
“ In my mind/ 5 he says, “ the first and prin- 
“ cipal inducement to a person to quit Eng- 
“ land for America, is, the total absence of mix- 
* Mr. Cooper, late of Manchester, who emigrated to 
America with all his family, and whose authority has been 
very generally quoted by the Americans who have since 
written on the subject of emigration. 
