414 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA: 
out witnessing some acrimonious dispute from 
the same cause. 
Let us, however, compare the inducements 
which he holds out to people in England to 
leave that country for America, that is, for the 
United States, with the inducements there 
would be to settle in Canada, under the pre¬ 
mised supposition, that the land was there 
granted in an unexceptionable manner. 
From the land being plentiful in Canada, 
and consequently at a very low price, but likety 
to increase in value; whilst in the States, on 
the contrary, it has risen to an exorbitant va¬ 
lue, beyond which it is not likely to rise for 
some time to come; there can be no doubt 
but that a man of moderate property could 
provide for his family with much more ease in 
Canada than in the United States, as far as 
land were his object. 
In Canada, also, there is a much greater 
opening for young men acquainted with any 
business or profession that can be carried on in 
America, than there is in the United States. 
The expence of settling in Canada would be 
far less also than in any one of the States; for 
in the former country the necessaries and con¬ 
veniences of life are remarkably cheap, whilst, 
on the contrary, in the other they are far dearer 
than in England ; a man therefore would cer¬ 
tainly have no greater anxiety about the future 
