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often indicated by roads sometimes parallel with and sometimes at 

 right angles to those of the older settlements. In some cases the new set- 

 tlements were a considerable distance back from the older, in which case 

 they often bear distinct names. The more important settlements of 

 this character were New Ridge and some minor settlement in St. 

 David's, Pleasant Ridge, Midland, Case Settlement, Butternut Ridge, 



Map No. 9. 



Geary (apparently one of the oldest npland settlements in the St. John 

 Basin), New Maryland. But in many casesi the back lands along the 

 older settlements are of inferior quality, and then the new settlers 

 moved either to new harbours or islands along the coast, or, more com- 

 monly, to new lands above the old settlements on the principal rivers. 

 Of the new coast settlements the most important were those at Maces 

 Bay and the various small harbours westward to Letite, together with 

 mosft of the small islands in West Isles; of this character, too, were no 



