416 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA : 
himself at ease in the United States any more 
than in England, as he will meet with soldiers 
in New York, on Governor’s Island, at Mifflin 
Fort near Philadelphia, at the forts on the 
North River, at Niagara, at Detroit, and at 
Oswego, &c. on the lakes, and all through the 
western country, at the different posts which 
were established by General Wayne. 
In every other respect, what Mr. Cooper 
has said of the United States holds good with 
regard to Canada ; nay more, it must certainly 
in addition be allowed by every unprejudiced 
person that has been in both countries, that 
morality and good order are much more con¬ 
spicuous amongst the Canadians of every de¬ 
scription, than the people of the States; 
drunkenness is undoubtedly much less com¬ 
mon amongst them, as in gambling, and also 
quarrels. 
But independant -of these inducements to 
settle in Canada, tfeere is still another circum¬ 
stance, which ought to weigh greatly with 
every British emigrant, according to the opi¬ 
nion even of Mr. Cooper himself. After ad¬ 
vising his friends to go where land is cheap 
and fertile, and where it is in a progress of 
improvement/’ he recommends them f<r to 
go somewhere, if possible, in the neighbour¬ 
hood of a few English, whose society, even 
in America, is interesting to an English set- 
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