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rapidly alternating from one to the other. Travellers, 

 therefore, who do not get beyond the seaboard, carry 

 away with them an unfavourable and unjust idea of the 

 Canadian climate. 



A stranger having penetrated the fogs of the Bay of 

 Fundy finds himself in the city of St. John a victim to 

 the wind. When it blows from the north or north-west, 

 the weather is dry and cold in winter, dry and warm in 

 summer ; the instant it veers round to the east it brings 

 rain. Fogs roll in from the westward, and both rain and 

 fogs from the southward. Let him now travel 10 or 

 12 miles inland, and he will escape all those sudden 

 changes. Fredericton, 60 miles off as the crow flies, 

 can boast of as much sunshine as any place I know of 

 steady cold winter, and a warm summer, with an un- 

 clouded sky six days out of seven all the year round. 



Of secondary importance only to the health of the 

 immigrant himself is the health of his stock. There is no 

 part of the New World better suited to cattle than the 

 Dominion of Canada. Both horned cattle and sheep are 

 entirely free from the diseases and epidemics that pe- 

 riodically make such havoc among the farmers' stock in 

 England. The air and water are eminently suitable to 

 their health, whilst the climate and soil are equally 

 suitable to the growth of their food. Professor Hurlbert 

 in a treatise on American climates proves conclusively 

 that those districts on the continent which nature clothed 

 with forest are those best suited to the production of 

 grasses and cereals. The latter like the forest require a 

 certain amount of humidity. All Canada, east of the 

 Red river, is or was clad with forest, and when cleared the 



