190 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



island, for in Eichmond Bay kitchen middens occur many 

 feet in depth, composed of oyster shells, with here and 

 there flint implements for opening them interspersed with 

 the shells. 



As regards emigration, Prince Edward Island is but a 

 small province, and is not capable of providing for a great 

 rush of new settlers. It offers, however, a good chance of 

 success to a limited number of certain classes of emigrants, 

 viz. (1) farmers with a small capital, say from 1000Z. to 

 200Z. A man with the latter sum can buy a farm with 

 house and land ready for the plough. If industrious, he 

 cannot fail, especially if he has a growing family to assist 

 him. (2) Agricultural labourers. : There is a fair demand 

 for men of this class at about 2Z. 10s. per month (with 

 keep) if hired by the year, or 5Z. per month in the height 

 of the farming season. Farmers complain of the difficulty 

 of procuring extra hands in the summer. There is no 

 floating population like the lumberers in Lower Canada. 



The fauna of Prince Edward Island, with one or two 

 exceptions, is the same as on the adjacent mainland. The 

 exceptions are the deer (moose, cariboo, and Yirginian 

 deer) and the beaver. Of the former, cariboo once ex- 

 isted on the island as evidenced by horns which have been 

 found in different places, but I am inclined to think that, 

 as in Anticosti, beaver never lived on the island. They 

 are animals whose traces endure long after they have 

 become extinct, and I never saw or heard of any beaver 

 works. There are a few bears in the wooded districts. 

 The fur-bearing animals are scarce with the exception of 

 the musquash, which are very plentiful, their great 

 enemies, the Indians, having been civilized into basket- 



