Geographical Collections. WA 



Hay, and Sheep Islands. Kent Island contains about one hundred and fifty 

 acres, about twenty of which are cultivated, and occupied by a John Kent, an 

 emigrant from the United States, for about these six years past. The occupant 

 keeps a stock of twenty head of cattle, besides sheep, and a fishing schooner of 

 eighteen tons. Hay Island contains about twenty-five acres of poor land, except 

 a stripe of marsh, of about eight or nine acres, on the side next to Kent Island, 

 which is inclosed and mowed annually for hay ; it is connected by a bar with 

 Kent Island, and is, together with Sheep Island, in the occupancy of the said 

 Kent, under the general name of Three Islands. Sheep Island contains about 

 twenty acres. The eastern end is a green sandy point, free from wood, but pro- 

 duces grass, which affords pasture for sheep. It is separated firom the other islands 

 by two smsJl channels. 



Eastern and Western Green Islands contain about five acres each, free from 

 the growth of any kind of wood. The soil of these islets is good, and naturally 

 produces hay, which is annually cut and preserved. They are unoccupied, and 

 claimed by Mr. Gerrish within his location of 500 acres. 



Great Duck Island contains between fifty and sixty acres, a considerable pro- 

 portion of which, in a large rim round a tract of wood land in the middle, was 

 natJirally clear, which rim has been partly ploughed, and otherwise improved by 

 the Ross family, into a handsome tract of meadow. It is not tenantable for want 

 of a secure harbour for boats in the winter season. It is claimed by the Rose 

 family, and included within the location of 500 acres to John Ross. 



Nantucket Island contains about seventy -four acres, some parts of which are 

 very eligible for cultivation, and others naturally afibrd grass and pasture. There 

 are about three acres cleared and occupied by a William Gatecomb, an emigrant 

 about six years since from the United States, two years in the possession of the 

 island, for which he gave fifty boxes of herrings to a former occupant, whose 

 right to settlement was always resisted by Mr. Gerrish, and who now includes it 

 within his application for 500 acres. 



High and Low Duck Islands contain about nine acres each ; they, like Great 

 Duck Island, have circular rims of cleared land, which, from the dung of wild 

 fowls, naturally produce a luxuriant crop of weeds and grass, which are annually 

 cut and preserved for hay. The water leaves the passage between these two is- 

 lands dry at half tide ; they are unoccupied, and included in Mr. Gerrish's ap- 

 plication. 



Long Island contains about one hundred and twenty-five acres. A consider- 

 able proportion is good land and well timbered. There are about ten acres under 

 improvement, cleared at different times by different occupants, and said to be very 

 productive. It is at present occupied by a Charles Ivittlejohn, who came in April 

 , into the possession by a purchase from a Levi Richardson, as he says, for 

 three hundred dollars. He is a native of the province of Nova Scotia. His family 

 only consists of his aged parents, who are said to have been the first occupants of 

 the island. 



General Considerations on the Pyrenees. 



The geography of the surface of the earth may be confined to a varied succes- 

 sion of plains, hills, and valleys ; and in the modifications which each of tliese have 

 undergone in external form, consists the contrasted configurations of continental 

 surfaces. While the history of the plains, in some places totally deprived of 

 vegetable or animal life, in some traversed by rivers whose course is marked by 

 the fertile products of industry, in others, as the prairies of America, covered with 

 a virgin vegetation, and seeming only to wait for the hand of man, is so intimately 

 connected with that of the progress of civilization, — that of the mountains recals 

 the primitive history of the human race. Most probably high alpine tracts for- 

 jnerly cradled our species ; at all times they have been the abode of races valor- 



