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ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The causes of this check in the growth of the English-speaking 

 population are perfectly well known. They consist not in the absolute 

 lessening or exhaustion of New Brunswick's natural attractions, but in 

 the great relative increase of attractions elsewhere, especially the 



been that many Loyalists in the province, while Acadians and old inhabitants 

 would certainly add nearly two thousand more, not to mention Indians. Some 

 data exist for an estimate of the population in 1767, in a general return of the 

 Townships of Nova Scotia in that year (these Transactions, above cited, 1.S8). 

 This gives 929 inhabitants to the New Brunswick townships, not counting New 

 Brunswick's share of Cumberland (334), and of a miscellaneous division includ- 

 ing Miramichi, the St. John River and Cape Sable (172), of which probably 

 half, say 253, belong to New Brunswick, making in all 3,082 inhabitants. These 

 figures do not include by any means all of the Indians or Acadians, but only 

 those happening to reside in the townships. 



