[boueinot] 



BUILDERS OF NOVA SCOTIA 



151 



before. It is, however, much to be lamented such great exertions had not been more 

 profitably directed in cultivating their lands, for besides loss of time, they have 

 wasted their substance in that which can never prove profitable to themselves of 

 useful to the country. 



Return of the Disbanded Troops and Loyalists Settling in the Province of Nova 

 Scotia, Mustered in the Summer of 17S4. 



An abstract of the number of inhabitants will stand thus, viz. : — 



Of Old British Inhabitants 14,000 



Of Old French or Acadians, One Hundred \ .r^ 



Families at four a Family ... J *"" 



Of Disbanded Troops and Loyalists which 1 9^347 



are called New Inhabitants / '■"^'' 



Total 42,747 



The Indians are not enumerated, or can they be considered as making any part 

 of the community. 



This Return includes the Negroes, whose numbers are about 3,000, but as they 

 have not been distinguished from the other Loyalists I cannot give their number 

 with precision. 



