The Emigrant's Guide

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Excerpt from The Emigrant's Guide: In Ten Letters, Addressed to the Tax-Payers of England 2. For these reasons, and for many others that might be stated, I have always, hitherto, advised Englishmen not to emigrate even to the United States of America, but, to remain at home, in the hope that some change for the better would come in the course of a few years. When we consider the usual duration of man's life, ten years are not a few, and it is now eleven years since I, in my Year's Residence, deliberately gave that advice. Not only has there, since 1818, when the Year's Residence in America was written, been no change for the better, but things have gradually become worse and worse. In short, things have now taken that turn, and they present such a prospect for the future, that I not only think it advisable for many good people to emigrate, but I think it my duty to give them all the information I can to serve them as a guide in that very important enterprise, and, to do this, I am, by mere accident, better qualified, perhaps, than any man in the world. For I actually saw the colony of New Brunswick begun to be settled, I almost saw the axe laid to the stem of the first tree that was felled, I saw wild woods and river banks turned into settlements, I had to assist in cutting down trees, and in peeling off the bark, to make sheds to live under before we had any covering other than the sky, so that I know the very rudiments of settling in new countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.