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removing with his family from the port where he disembarks in America, to the spot of ground in the forest on which he may fix for the theatre of his future operations ; whether he can reconcile himself for two or three years to endure many privations to which he had hitherto been unaccustomed, and to the hard labour of levelling and burning the forest, and raising crops from a soil with natural obstructions which require much industry to remove. If, after making up his mind to all these considerations, he resolves on emigrating, he will not be disappointed in realizing in America any reasonable prospect he may have entertained in Europe. These difficulties are, indeed, such as would often stagger the resolu- tion of most emigrants, if they had not before them, in every part of America, examples of men who must have encountered and overcome equally, if not more disheartening hardships, before they attained a state of comfortable aflluence.

The majority of those who emigrate to America, are driven abroad by the goadings of poverty; an- other class is formed of adventurous men, who go to seek fortunes in other countries, with the hope of again returning to their own ; a third class is com- posed of men of genius, whose schemes have been frustrated, or Whose hopes have been blighted at home; and a fourth class includes individuals who are not only discontented with their condition in the land of their forefathers, but displeased also with all public measures : these men are not, probably, com— pelled to emigrate from necessity, but from a spirit.