456 REMARKS ON EMIGRATION. they do, or are more peaceable, or better members of s ociety. Medical gentlemen generally secure a decent liveli- ii , hood, but, with few exceptions, seldom make money. 5 The climate of is too salubrious for doctors to make fortunes. Schoolmasters who $ emigrate, if they have not entered into engagements as to salary before leaving home, will, nine out of ten, have to cultivate the soil for a subsistence, and they generally make indifferent farmers. Young men of education, clerks in mercantile houses, or shopmen, need not expect the least encouragement, I unless previously engaged by the merchants or shop¬ keepers in . 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 should carry out with them, if their means will admit, as \ much clothing, bedding, and linen as may be neces¬ sary for four or five years, some leather, one or two ': , \ sets of light cart harness, two or three spades or shovels, scythes, sickles, hoes, plough traces, the iron work of a plough and harrow, of the common kind used in Scotland ; the cast machinery for a corn fan, - cooking utensils, a few door hinges, and a small assortment of nails. Furniture, or any other kind of' wooden work, will only incommode them, as what may be necessary can easily be procured at moderate rates in .