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if possible, at the same time of military habits. The. capabilities of this valuable, extensive, but little known province, will be observed where the colony is described in the second volume of this work.

In Nova Scotia, although there are not now remain- ing extensive tracts of good lands ungranted, yet farmers of frugal and industrious habits, and with some means, are sure to succeed; and such is the state of society in, and improved condition of, this province,'that a man does not feel that he is very far removed from all that he has formerly been accus- tomed to.

Cape Breton, with its eminent advantages for the fisheries, and for grazing, and also, in most parts, for agriculture, is admirably adapted for families from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, from the Isle of Man, or from Wales. Last year, about 2000 emigrants arrived in this island from the Hebrides, in a state of wretched poverty, and would have suf- fered great miseries, had not several of their relations or acquaintances previously settled in the colony.

In Prince Edward Island, families from the inland counties of England, and from the agricultural shires of Scotland, to the number of 10 or 20,000 indivi- duals, would find farms to suit them, on terms fully as liberal as in any of the other colonies where lands are equally well situated ; and in this colony, also, the state of society, and local advantages, are supe- rior. This island has long been considered the most beautiful of our American colonies. It is thriving