Excerpt from Observations on Professions, Literature, Manners and Emigration, in the United States and Canada: Made During a Residence There in 1832 Reasons for emigrating - The Voyage, and first view Of N ew-york - Impressions on landing, and high price Of lodgings and fuel sickness-miscellaneous particulars, upon delivery Of letters of introduction - Remarks on the Episcopal Church and Clergy in the United States - American marriage. AT the latter end of 1831, I left England for America, with a view Of adopting the United States as my future country. My reasons for taking this step were similar to those of most emigrants. Dis satisfaction with the Government and the state of things in my own country, by which I had, as I con cluded, been hitherto kept back in my fortune, and disappointed in my aims, together With a high admi ration Of the American Republic, formed the founda tion of my reasons for emigrating. 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.