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be located to great individual advantage, and with importance to the political value of Canada. Such people are eminently qualified to colonize this district ; and I almost concur in opinion with the Quebec gentleman who says, in a letter to Colonel Cockburn, “ that it” (the basin of Saguenay) “ is the am: et (lomicilium imperii of North America, and should be settled with people of military habits.” No man can more readily assume steady military habits, if necessa— ry, than those I recommend to this country. Another tract, lying between the rear of the Canadian settle- ments on the south side of the St Lawrence and the province of New Brunswick, is capable of supporting many thousands. \ This tract should be settled either by the Canadians or Scotch Highlanders, for the pur- pose of forming a barrier of distinct people, near the frontiers of the United States.

There are other tracts in Lower Canada worthy of much attention. That lying north of the St Law- rence, in the rear of the seigniories, is particularly adapted for Scotch Highlanders,—that is, if this tract be not reserved for the increasing Canadian-French population. Another excellent tract, pointed out by Lord Dalhousie, for Lowland Scotch, lies on the Ottawa, below Hull.

As respects New Brunswick—as the soil is, at a short distance from the sea-coast, equal to that of Canada, it is, at the same time, accessible at little more than half the expense; but, bordering on the United States, great care should be observed in send- ing to it only emigrants of correct, industrious, and,