REMARKS ON ElVIIGRATION. 4463

To those who are anxious to emigrate, but who have not the means, it is a matter of difficulty to advise how to proceed ; various plans are often adopt- ed. Unmarried men and women who were unable. to pay their passages, have frequently bound them- selves for two or three years to those who paid for carrying them to America.

Letters from those who have been settled some years in America, to their friends in the mother countries, have long been a powerful cause of emi- gration. Money, also, is frequently sent by settlers in America, to enable their friends to follow, and by these means more have been induced to emigrate than by all others.

The following very prudent plan has long pre- vailed in Scotland, and, having been generally at- tended with success, can scarcely be recommended too much.

When a family, or a few families, determine on emigrating, some of the sons or relations that are

cess in every other branch of industry does) on his own industry and character. A worthy friend of mine, Ewen Cameron, Esq, of Prince Edward Island, owns a remarkably fine farm, within a few miles of Charlotte Town. He let it on the shares for three years, to a John Kennedy, from Perthshire, a plain, honest, indus~ trious farmer; at the expiration of this period, Mr Cameron was in every respect pleased with Kennedy, and quite satisfied as to the produce of his farm. Kennedy, with his stock, removed to a wood farm, which, in 1828, when last in America, I passed in front of, and I could not help admiring how much land he had reclaimed from the forest, and under excellent tillage. Mr Cameron told me that since Kennedy left, his farm, under the management of the man who succeeded him, produced him nothing.