4 OPINION OF TWO AYRSHIRE BROTHERS. 



sends the same grain to the town-merchant in St John 

 or Quebec, and, like the smaller dealer, obtains also in 

 return the same or other West Indian and manufactured 

 articles. It is only after a country has become so rich 

 or so densely peopled that several merchants can obtain 

 a living in the same neighbourhood, and, by doing much 

 business, can afford to take smaller profits and to outbid 

 each other, that money is easily obtained, and is diffused 

 readily among the community. Such a period will arrive, 

 without doubt, in this and most other parts of these 

 northern provinces ; but that it has not yet arrived in 

 any special locality, is not to be considered as a peculiar 

 drawback to that locality, or as a grievance which will not 

 disappear from all new settlements as age creeps upon 

 them, and their population and products increase. 



Twelve miles further on we stopped at Chalmers s, 

 (Belledune.) Two brothers live at this way-side inn 

 and farm, and the settlers around are chiefly from Ayr 

 shire. These brothers had been eighteen years in the 

 country, and they differed altogether from the minister 

 as to the evils of the New Brunswick winter. That it 

 was cold, they did not deny ; but it was dry, they said, 

 and bracing, and more easily borne than a winter at 

 home, &quot; because a man never gets his feet wet, and, 

 except when the winter is melting off into spring, is 

 seldom exposed to damp weather, or to the danger of 

 taking cold.&quot; They agreed also and many others 

 have told me the same that if a man is comfortable 

 at home^ he ought not to come out here / but that if 

 he does come out, and is inclined to work with perse 

 verance, he will surely prosper. The difficulties of the 

 settler are chiefly experienced during the first two years, 

 after which they are gradually got over, and he becomes 

 first reconciled, and finally attached to the country in 

 which he is prosperous and independent. 



In this north-eastern part of New Brunswick, there 



