Excerpt from A Visit to the United States and Canada in 1833: With the View of Settling in America, Including a Voyage to and From New York I had long cherished the desire, with the view of bettering my condition, of emigrating to America; and was ultimately induced to carry my wishes into effect from the flattering accounts given by Mr Stuart and other recent writers on the subject. It was my fortune to travel for a considerable way in the wake of the Writer above named - how far my experience agrees with his statements the succeed ing pages will show. 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.