Extract of a letter from an Englishman, dated Lima, Septemper 10, 1821 “Lima is what an Englishman would call a dirty colonial town; 6000 inhabitants is the outside of its population; the whites are about 1200 Europeans, and not as many born in the country; the rest are blacks and mulattoes. Of the mulattoes there …
Emigration to Canada The following is an extract of a letter from a tradesman belonging to Glasgow, who has been six years in Upper Canada, to a friend in this city :– ” York, Upper Canada, 14th November, 1820. “You wish to be informed of the encouragement that you might meet with by an emigration …
Emigration. The following is an extract of a letter dated Louisville, August 12th, 1820, from a Scotchman who has been long settled in America, to his friend, a Scotch Farmer, who rents 500 acres of land in the County of Middlesex. “The circumstances in which this country is placed at present are truly melancholy, when …
SOUTH AMERICA. Extract of a letter from an Englishman, dated Lima, September 10, 1821. “Lima is what an Englishman would call a dirty colonial town; 6000 inhabitants is the outside of its population; the whites are about 1200 Europeans, and not as many born in the country; the rest are blacks and mulattoes. Of the …
Upper Canada Extract from ” A Visit to the Province of Upper Canada, in 1819,” By James Strachan. [?] the Stream of Emigration now chiefly to the United States, and not to Canada. The greater number are decieved; they know no[?] of this country. Many leave Great Britain from [?] discontents; and such the province …
Extract of a letter received from Calcutta, dated 22d November, 1819:–“An afflicting circumstance has recently taken place. The Captain of the Bengal, a Liverpool trader, very lately gave a ball on board his ship, which was about to sail for England. The party was very small, and more than half were taken ill with a …