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SECTION VIIJ.—CriticaL STUDY OF THE CHARACTER OF THE NEW 
BRUNSWICK PEOPLE IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR ORIGIN, SuR- 
ROUNDINGS AND HISTORY. 
The most difficult, but if well done, most valuable part of the work. 
Complete classified index to the entire work ; complete map, modern 
and historical, of New Brunswick, in sections. 
New Brunswick has not a complete local history of any kind, Han- 
nay’s excellent work ending before the coming of the Loyalists. Pro- 
bably no other civilized country is so deficient in this respect, and 
probably in no other civilized country are the archives so inadequately 
cared for, or in certain lines so nearly wanting altogether. - The 
government of New Brunswick not only has no collection of published 
works relating to it, but it has not even a collection of its own publica- 
tions, outside of the journals of its sessions. It would be easier, so far as 
authorities are concerned, to write the history of the province in London 
or in Boston than in St. John or Fredericton. But this lack of any his- 
tory, and total want of appreciation of its need, makes the inducement 
to write such an one as I have sketched just so much the greater. 
