440 REMARKS ON EMIGRATION. wretched poverty, to the attainment of considerable property in land and cattle, and all that is necessary to render rural life happy.* It frequently happens, however, that emigrants are disappointed in realizing the prospects they che¬ rished when they left their native country. Lured by unprincipled speculators into the belief, that all they can possibly wish for is to be obtained with little difficulty on the shores and amidst the forests of , they embark with sanguine el dorada expectations. No sooner, however, do they tread the lands of the , than the delu¬ sion vanishes, and they discover that neither food, clothing, nor any article whatever, is to be had with¬ out money, or some exchangeable value ; that they must, for at least two or three years, endure many privations ; and that success must depend altogether on persevering industry and judicious management. It is, therefore, a matter of the first importance, for a man living in the United Kingdom, to consider, before he determines on expatriation, whether he can, by industry and integrity, obtain a tolerably comfort¬ able livelihood in the country of his nativity; whether, in order to secure to his family the certain means of subsistence, he can willingly part with his friends, and leave scenes that must have been dear to his heart from childhood ; and whether, in order to attain to independence, he can reconcile himself to suffer the inconveniency of a sea voyage, and the fatigue of * Note A.