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quite hilly, and covered with a heavy growth of timber, 

 a considerable portion of which is sugar maple, and 

 which affords as fine an opportunity for making sugar 

 as I ever saw. There is also beech, maple, ash, moun- 

 tain ash, tomerac, fir and pine. We reached the north 

 Island about 4 o'clock, and took in 40 cords of wood. 

 This appears to be a new establishment. We laid at a 

 very fine new wharf built out some 200 feet, for the ac- 

 commodation of boats taking wood, as there is no settle- 

 ment except the 30 or 40 wood-choppers and their 3 or 

 4 families, who are dependant upon getting every thing 

 they consume or feed their teams from "over the water." 

 At the south Island there is a more extensive wood yard, 

 and a railroad extending from the wharf some 4 or 5 

 miles inland, to convey the wood over the deep and loose 

 sandy surface. 



Upon the south end of this Island there is a light- 

 house. The two wood-yards are about ten miles apart, 

 and as there is no other of any consequence within a 

 hundred or two miles either way, the amount sold here 

 is immense — the price $1 :50 to $1 :75 a cord. 



The government still owns the soil, but very kindly 

 permits the occupants to divest it of every thing that 

 has any value attached to it, for the land without the 

 timber is of no more value than a leg-treasurer's hon- 

 esty. No one would live here in this cold and barren 

 region, cut off from all the world, half the year, for 

 any other purpose than that which occupies those now 

 here. After taking on our wood, and it appearing so 

 calm and comfortable under the lee of the Island, that 

 the passengers were anxious to go ahead, and we left 

 the wharf just at dark, and passed the light house just 

 at 8 o'clock; the Capt., with a mischievous wink, observ- 

 ing to me that some of his passengers wold never believe 

 the wind was blowing blue blazes outside. But in the 

 course of a couple of hours those that were able to look 

 out and see the waves bursting over the brow, and send- 

 ing up a thick spray over the huricane deck, began to 

 believe that a snug anchorage under the lee of the Mani- 



