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the spring-time. These are the most valuable lands in the 

 province, as they gire a heavy crop of hay every year 

 with no labour but the cutting and saving. The New 

 Brunswick farmer who owns a farm on the bank of the 

 St. John, and an island or a portion of an island, is a 

 lucky man. He can keep a large stock; for which he has 

 always a good market, as the price of meat in the mari- 

 time provinces is very high. A good farm on the St. John, 

 with buildings, and including a portion of island or marsh, 

 can be bought for about 1500Z. A man with a capital of 

 2000Z. and money enough besides to keep him going for 

 one year can make a very good living on a farm such as 

 this. On the New Brunswick side of the Bay of Chaleur 

 there is also good land, as there is also in Sussex vale and 

 along the Miramichi river. 



The New Brunswickers are famed for their achievements 

 on the water as canoe-men and boatmen. In boat-racing 

 St. John has taken the lead in America, beating all 

 comers both from the United States and Canada, and 

 holding her own against any English crews she has com- 

 peted with. It is to a certain extent the water that makes 

 the waterman. In the harbour of St. Jonn the mouth of 

 the river of that name the tide rises to a height of 

 40 feet, and the boatmen have always a tremendous 

 current to contend against. The man who can row here 

 can row anywhere. But independently of this, the fact of 

 a small city in Canada turning out a crew of four men 

 who are able to beat any crew in the United States, and to 

 hold their own against any crew in the world, goes far to 

 prove that the Anglo-Saxon settler in Canada possesses an 

 unimpaired vitality. 



