Excerpt from New Lands: Their Resources and Prospective Advantages IN acceding to a. Request to write for Griffin's New Land Series for Prospectors, a volume on New Lands, it was the desire of the author to present a short, simple, and practical account of the conditions of life in those parts of the world where there is still an opening for the energies of English speaking people desiring to make their home or invest their capital in a. New country. Considerations of space made it necessary to limit the scope of the survey, and it was found desirable to treat of little more than the coun tries of the temperate zone. The only part of the book in which the author speaks. From personal knowledge of the country is that dealing with the Dominion of Canada. The value of the brief visit which he paid to the far west lay mainly in enabling him to satisfy himself of the careful accuracy of the official publications regarding the western provinces and terri tories, and to form the acquaintance of public men and settlers whose information has been gratefully utilised. 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.