Val in Canada, if

ignorant of their way, they should apply at Quebec
to the government principal agent, who is stationed there for the lower or eastern part of Canada, and he will give them either advice or passage, according to the nature of the case. It is a pity that
a rage exists

for going as far west as possible at first,
for this rage causes distress, and ends frequently by
their being kidnapped into settling in the United States. If, however, they are determined

to go on to Western Canada, their course is either

to pay their own way, or to obtain assistance from the government to send
them on
to Kingston,
where another government agent for Western Canada is stationed; and, as this gentleman has now acted in that capacity for many years, he possesses a perfect knowledge of the country and its

resources, and of the wants and objects of the settlers. There is excellent land, and plenty of it to be obtained from the British American Land Company in Lower Canada, in that portion called "The Townships," which adjoin the states of Vermont and New York; and, excepting
that the winters are longer, the climate more severe, it
is as desirable as any other part of the province, and, in
point of health, perhaps more so, as it is sufficiently far from the great river and lakes to make it less subject
to ague; which, however, more or less, all new countries in the temperate zone, well forested and watered, are invariably the seat of, and which is

increased in power and frequency in proportion
to the neighbourhood of fresh water in
large bodies, and the use of whiskey as a preventive. From a statement of the number of emigrants to this colony for the last sixteen years, compiled by A.C. Buchanan, Esq., chief emigrant agent, it appears
that, in the five