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_Upper Canada-Inhabitants-Climate-Soil-Mode of Selling Land, and Prices-Bad Effects of Selling on Credit-Situation of Settlers without Capital-Price of Land in Upper Canada and the Western United States-Price of Land, and Mode of Settlement Injurious to the Province-Suggestions for Improving the State of the Country._
Upper Canada became a separate province in 1791. It is bounded on the east by Lower Canada, and on the south by the river St Lawrence, and the chain of rivers and lakes to the west, the waters of which form the St Lawrence. The boundaries in the north, and in the extreme west towards the Pacific Ocean, are perhaps not accurately defined, and the surface of the province cannot be estimated.