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never be overstocked, for the large cities of the Northern 

 States will always be glad to get any overplus that New 

 Brunswick may have to dispose of. The facilities for 

 sending goods to market are, as I said before, unsurpassed. 

 Besides roads, which are numerous and tolerably good, 

 the whole province of New Brunswick is intersected by 

 rivers and lakes ; many are navigable in summer, and all 

 form capital roads in winter when bridged over by the 

 frost. Eailways too are springing up in all directions, 

 and the feelings of the moose and the cariboo are rudely 

 shocked by the scream of the locomotive. There are now 

 over 700 miles of railway in New Brunswick, or a mile of 

 railway to every 350 of the population. 



The coast-line of the province is of great extent about 

 400 miles with innumerable good harbours. The inland 

 navigation is considerable ; steamers run 200 miles up the 

 St. John in high water, 80 miles at all times. 



As regards the climate, the principal drawback and it 

 is a serious one is that the total work which the English 

 farmer spreads over twelve months, must in New Brunswick 

 all be compressed into six or seven months. It is said, and 

 I believe with truth, that an acre of land here will yield 

 as good, or better crops, than an acre of equally good 

 land in England. In estimating the advantages and 

 disadvantages of climate, there are several things that 

 must be set against the length and severity of the 

 winters amongst others, the pulverization of the land 

 by frost, which saves labour ; the small number of days 

 in the season in which the farmer is impeded in his 

 operations by rainfall, and consequently the ease and 

 rapidity with which he secures his crops ; great heat of 



