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CHAPTER IV. 



NEW BRUNSWICK. 



NEW BRUNSWICK is not a farming country; such at least 

 is the character it bears, and consequently there is little 

 or no emigration to the province. The vast army of 

 emigrants that year after year crosses the Atlantic, 

 leaving the British colonies on one side, pushes on farther 

 west, and distributes itself among the great cities and the 

 fertile prairies of the United States. Without pretending 

 to the gift of prophecy, I may fairly predict that at a 

 future period something will occur to divert this stream 

 of emigration elsewhere ; and, looking forward to this 

 contingency, it might not be amiss to glance at this 

 wilderness, and see why " New Brunswick is not a 

 farming country." Is it impossible to clear the land? 

 When cleared, does it not yield good crops ? Is the 

 climate too severe ? Are the markets too remote ? 



With an area of about 20,000,000 acres, New Brunswick 

 has a population of about 250,000, or, deducting the 

 population of the city of St. John, one to every hundred 

 acres. If the province were equally partitioned out 

 amongst the adult males, each one might have a farm 

 of five hundred acres. But every man in a country 

 cannot be a farmer some must be shoemakers, tailors, 

 &c. ; even doctors and lawyers are necessary evils. 

 With this scanty population it does not seem so strange 



