452 REMARKS ON EMIGRATION. 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 arx et domicilium imperii of , 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 Lawrence and the province of 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 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,