REMAKKS ON EMIGRATION. 453 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. , 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