CHAPTEE XVI. 



Miramichi. Farms for sale. Advice of an old Perthshire settler. 

 Influence of clearing the forests upon the local climate. Adaptation 

 of the flax husbandry to this country and climate. Incidents of the 

 great fire of 1825. Breadth and velocity of the flame. Its return 

 up the river from Burnt Church. Destruction of Douglas and New 

 castle. Great Darkness. Distance to which the ashes were carried. 

 Dry woods fired by lightning. -Influence of such natural fires upon 

 the quality of the land. Land on the north-west branch of the 

 Miramichi River. First and second growth of trees in the forest. 

 Opinion of the Presbyterian minister as to the healthiness of the 

 climate and the prosperity of agricultural settlers. Wisconsin fever. 

 Case of an Irish patient. Sales of land in the north-western States 

 an index of the intensity of the emigration fever. Falling off of 

 emigration to a state a sign that it does not answer the expectations 



raised regarding it. Intelligent improvers at Chatham. Improving 

 influence of granite boulders. Thorough-drainage on Mr Cunard s 

 farm. Growth of fruit-trees. Beautiful ploughing. A smashed 

 carriage. A second break-down. Bear-trap. Bears in the New 

 Brunswick woods. Reward for a bear s nose in the province. 

 Fallow-deer and wolves in the province. Bounty for the destruction 

 of wolves. Former abundance of this animal in Maryland and 

 Virginia. Sweet-fern meadow. Physical condition and state of the 

 levels in a district modify very much the direct agricultural indica 

 tions of geology and chemistry. The former influence early settle 

 ment more than the latter. Agricultural capabilities are progres 

 sive. Practical surveys necessary. Agricultural maps, their uses, 

 historical, statistical, and suggestive. Excursion up the Richibucto 

 and St Nicholas rivers. Hemlock-tree forests. Distribution of this 

 tree in the province. Influence of the direction of the wind on the 

 flow of the spring sap in the sugar-maple. Progress of clearing in 

 New Brunswick. Alleged superiority of the flour of winter wheat. 

 Different quantities of water absorbed by different samples of flour. 

 Cause of such differences probably mechanical or physical. 



