A Question put here to the Reader.

Before going further, I ask the reader whether this is a country to repel a settler from, looking merely to the strip of the province already described, namely, Vancouver Island, New Westminster District, and the country south of a line from Hope to the Eastern Boundary Line?

The weird, uncommon, gigantic features of the country, the grand scale on which its scenery and natural products are presented to the eye, make men at first feel dwarfed, discouraged; but there are great sources of national wealth in a territory with such a situation, with such harbours, climate, soil, and minerals. Much has to be overcome, but the future is certain.