4>66 REMARKS ON EMIGRATION. found to be respectably opulent, to have brought up his family in a creditable manner, and happy with his sons and daughters, commonly married and settled around him. In a contrary view, we find that those who only considered farming as a secondary employment, and engaged in other pursuits according as their fancy directed, have had poverty an ever- present attendant, with their families scattered in different places, subjected to a precarious subsistence, and often leading an irregular and indolent life. As an example of a body of some hundreds of emigrants thriving by steady industry, I know of none who have succeeded better than those sent by the late Earl of Selkirk , in 1802, from the Highlands and Isles of Scotland to Prince Edward Island , where his lordship first began his colonizing experiments, by settling them along the sea-coast, on lands which he purchased in one of the finest districts of that colony. It would have been happy for those he sent to , if they had been equally fortunate; and however good and honest his lordship's inten¬ tions were, and I believe them to have been so, he was undoubtedly imprudent in his measures and plans, in respect to the settlement.* Many instances might also be pointed out in Canada , Nova Scotia > New Brunswick , and , of the prosperity of emigrants who had to encounter all the hardships attached to a wilderness country, without money, or any support but what * Note F.