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tbM ** vkh the author of < Cyril ThornUho , whose visit to CapiMfy h » s taugfet him thai that province §» but' a leather in t&e . eagle ' * wmg > * and bids us ' let it go . ' On the other hand , some speculative liaberdasher is taught , by a public advertisement , to believe that Canada is the veritable land of Cockaigne , and ships his family , some fine morning , at the London Docks ; arriving in the JSt Lawrence at the fall / he is surprised to find that it is cold , and that he has been wofully deceived , like that correspondent of a ' planter' in Nova Scotia ( see Dr . Johnson ' s ' Tour to the Hebrides ') who was assured by his friend ' that the climate of that transatlantic region reminded him of the South of Italy . ' *
We can recommend the perusal of Gait ' s pleasant story of ' Lawrie Todd , ' and if there be leisure , his ' Bogle Corbet * may be consulted : Dunlop ' s * Backwoodsman' also is replete with agreeable information . The more detailed matter in Howison , Picken , Pickering , M ' Gregor , Martin Doyle , the first number of * Chambers ' s Information / and the issues of the Canada Com *
Jtaoies ( gratis ) are also valuable advisers . And do we , as the result of our reading , advise emigration ?—decidedly . That the ruined or nearly ruined commercial and professional men should tutu farmers in Canada ?—expressly so . ' But farmers do not succeed here . ' But farmers there have no rent , no tax , no poor rate to pay , no manure to buy . It is a virgin soil . € But to farm without the science of a farmer . ' This is quite practicable where the farms have no obstacles which puzzle our European
* We have heard absurd speculations on the softening of the climate of Canada by the * clearings ; ' but , according to barometrical obflervations , the clearing of the founts appears to have had the contrary result , if any , but to have jnade very slight appreciable alteration in the severity of the frost , i he climate of Canada is Krcre . This severity may be accounted for on general principles . Firstly , it i » on tW east side of America : the eastern sides of our continents are colder than the
Wtsjt , ( Pekin is visited with severe frosts in winter ;) secondly , the prevailing wind , Borth-wett , blows over land , instead of being softened by its progress over water ; thirdly , it is not protected by mountains to the north ; fourthly , the polar ice is lorkojn in Hudson ' s Bay , making a frozen Mediterranean . Baron Humboldt hat m *\ de extensive experiments and inquiries , confirming most of the above rules of clisnat * . Most of the above circumstances tend to produce a dry atmosphere : this it the counterbalance for the coldness . Captain Ross informs us that in their
wintet ejtiartere his cruw condensed the vapour of the apartment , collecting it in an invstt $ « d vessel of metal , placed over the hatchway or aperture in the ceiling , and thus drying the atmosphere , they wore able to endure the apartment at a comparatively lo % temperature . These circumstances bear out the reports we have of the Canadian tMsmfe . Therefore a cold climate needs no apology to home-teuking men , if its coldness be salubrious , sund that of Canada is so in a remarkable degree , so that eaterrhs are almost unknown j and in a congregation of 3000 people ut Montreal not ft tingle eough it to be heard . The cold north braces no less the body than the intejleti of man . We know but one ' republic of letters / meaning a free people of wbosn each individual is learned , that is Iceland . The first Greek port was from tbtfcr north country ; the southern taste , in modern days , has been taught to look fcwjrofu ! the mountains , and ha « l «» rn «< l to respect the Dames of Milton , 8 haksfj # * r * > ¦ Hi Bftott , and to close her book pf wondrous talcs to listen to the ' Ariostp of thp llsjstn \ * and our owa effTemtaaU disrelish for the drama , and the hijfh « r wa 1 J » s oC V 0 m * Jt is ) a sign welcome to barbarous luxury , which squats on the oahfcsof | n # TfcjisiH f whuVpoefk HctUm of the hlghnsi ordvr watches th « csweer ef th * ttorllsWw HgM % mi sheoees her Pai—quo —4 UI -the hiyltUntk 4 f the H * dm * . > « r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 532, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/32/
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