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CHAPTER XXV.

.“A heavy responsibility is incurred by those who presume to advise an intending Emigrant in the choice of his adopted country ; difficulties will arise, hardships have to be borne, and disappoint- ments will occur wherever he may bend his eburse. Dissatisfaction too often ensues, and the emigrant regrets perhaps, that “ home is home be it ever so homely.” But these fond associations cease as cir- cumstances improve, and the emigrant sees his family settled around him in comparative wealth exercising their religious and civil liberties with- out restraInt.”—-.Monro on Emigration.

The responsibility ot‘giving advice is not assumed in this manual. The emigrant can better judge for himself when he has belore him a few simple facts, as correct data upon which he may form his opinions. The internal geography of Prince Edward Island has not been made the subject of much remark, for three good and sufficient reasons—lst: the writer has not, during his present work, had sufficient op- portunity of visitingr thoroughly the different settle- ments, and marking their progress since he was previously on the ground,and therefore has postponed particularization of the interior, until his means of personal observation are extended. when he hopes again to app' ar in mint with more ample means of doingjustice tothe Island, which although possessed of no bold or romantic leatures, yet classes itself pleasantly as a most agreeable place of settlement. 2ndly, the writer is aware that another work is in progress on that subject, by a Presbyterian Minister, the Rev. George Sutherland, of Charlottetown, and as that work is at the instigation, under the authority, and for the use ofthe Board of Education, as a school book, it is reasonable to expect that when it makes its appearance it will not disappoint its promoters The third reason is, that great and favorable changes are about taking place in Prince Edward Island.