456 REMARKS 0N EMIGRATION.

they do, or are more peaceable, or better members of society.

Medical gentlemen generally secure a decent liveli- j-t‘ , hood, but, with few exceptions, seldom make money. {3

The climate of British America is too salubrious for doctors to make for tunes. Slchoolinasters who emigrate, if they have not enteled into engagements as to salary bef01e leaving home, will, nine out of ten, have to cultivate the soil f01 a subsistence, and they generally make indifferent farmmeis Young men of education, clerks in mercantile houses, or 1;. shopmen, need not expect the least encouragement; unless previously engaged by the merchants or shop- keepers in America. Many young men, however, of persevering minds and industrious habits, have baffled every obstacle, and finally succeeded in esta- blishing themselves in trade. Many of the richest merchants in the colonies were of this description. Farmers or labourers going to America should: carry outwith them, if their means will admit, as 7'

much clothing, bedding, and linen as may be neces- _

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sary for four or five years, some leathe1, one or two "1 sets of light cart harness, two or thiee spades or shovels, scythes, sickles, hoes, plough traces, the' lI'OII i work of a plough and har1ow, of the common kind used in Scotland; the cast machinery f01 a corn fan, ' cooking utensils, a few door hinges, and a small: assortment of nails. Furnitui e, or any other kind of' ' wooden work, will only incommode them, as what may be necessaiy can easily be procured at moderate rates in America.

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