In many instances such societies are found for half a century to have preserved their native language in great purity. Though these circumstances may appear trifling, yet they are of material consequence to the comfort of those who change their coimtry at a period of life when both habits and manners are formed, and to those who have, by prudential motives, been induced to change their country, but who cannot, with the same facility, change their feelings as men.

On a plan similar to the one above mentioned, a Scotch settlement was projected two years ago, and a considerable number of persons of that country have already joined it. This settlement is formed on the west side of the Genesee River, about eight miles from the River, and is called Caledonia. The village is built around a remarkable spring, which issues from a limestone rock, and forms a body of water covering about two acres, from whence a stream takes its rise sufficiently powerful to work, ^ at a short distance from the spring, a set of merchant mills. The plan for this settlement occupies about ten thousand acres, distributed in the following manner

For the ministry 100 acres

For the school, about 60

Ten gentlemen, 500 acres each 5,000

Ten farmers, 100 acres each 1,000

Forty farmers, 78 acres each, 3,120

For the village, sixty lots of 12 acres each. .. 720

10,000 acres.

Men of property anxious to secure to their families estates in America^ will experience great satisfaction in joining their countrymen, perhaps their former friends and neighbours, in such a colony. They can, as opportunity offers, improve their respective purchases,