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Montgomery and his brother, I have frequently had the opportu— nity of observing the industrious progress of an old man of the name of Sinclair. He was upwards of sixty years when I saw him beginning in the ivvoods. His family consisted of his wife, and two grown-up daughters; one of the latter usually spent three-fourths of the year at service; their means were limited, and they were obliged to live very fr-ugally , but their‘inhdustry overcame every difficulty. Recollectiug the place thickly coveled with trees in ill-820,1 was charmed with its pretty improvements when I rode past it four or five years afterwards; and never did Iobserve more forcibly the effects of well- -applied industry.

A little farther on, near Sinclair’ s farm, a settle1, 3619.???” f01.‘ 1

merly a tenant on Major-General Stewart’ 5 estate,rGa1'th, in Pexth shire, and who went to Amelica, recommended by this l, rave ofti

cer to Sir James Montgomery s agent, has also made most ex ten- 4”; sive improvements. In the same settlement, a man of the name of” Cairns, whom I obsex ved the first year, with a 1ope over his shoulder, actually dragging after him the halrow which covered the seed, and who had at one time been .l“ good ci1cumstances in Dumflies- shi1e,~hflufwuli)‘ar1ived penniless 1n Ame1ica, toid me, that after surmounting the difficulties of the first two years, he had lived bet- ter, and that he consideled himself much more independent, than he eve1 did 1n Scotland Mr Dockendori’f, one of the most respect- able farme1s in 'I’Ir‘inmce Edward Island, with whom I have had frequent conve1sation respecting the condition of the inhabitants of the colonies, removed to it about forty years ago from the United States. He was then unmarried, and commenced clearing the farm which he now occupies, which was at that time covered altogether with trees that indicate a fertile soil. It is now one of the finest iii-"SSE”mx-th America.

His house is large, handsome, and comfortable; nis barn, stable, &c., are commodious and well planned ; his farming implements are ever in the best order; his horses, cattle, sheep, &c., always in ex- cellent condition. He married, soon after he settled, a thrifty and worthy woman; and his family, whom he has brought up in a man- ( ne1' highly creditable, are extolled for regularity of character, and habits of thrift. He has often observed to me, that all the poverty

in the colony, and generally in North America, was nothing more nor