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CHAPTEE XV. 



Dalhousie to Batlmrst. Rod land and thriving farms. Free Church 

 minister from the island of Arran in Scotland. His dissatisfaction 

 with the country.- -The system of barter a necessity of a new coun 

 try. Settlers from Ayrshire. Their prosperity, and opinion of New 

 Brunswick. Petit Rocher. Kind of land possessed by the Acadian 

 French. Their retirement to the back Concessions. Contentment of 

 the Acadian French. Bathurst ; its situation, bay, and bridge. Mr 

 Francis Ferguson s farm. Large crops of hay. Wages of farm-ser 

 vants. Advice to emigrants with capital, never to bring out labourers 

 engaged for a term of years. Connection of commercial prosperity 

 with agricultural improvement. Successful merchants often ardent 

 improvers of the land. The wheat-midge. Substitution of the oat 

 for the wheat crop. Increased consumption of oatmeal. Fall, and 

 land on the Tatagouche River. Rights of squatters. Unsteadiness 

 of the French as labourers. Interference of church holidays with 

 regular employment. Falls of the Papiiieau. Good land on the 

 upper waters of the Ncpisiguit. Future prospects of this district. 

 Blazing the bark of the birch-trees. Resin in the birch-bark. Value 

 of farms about Bathurst. Causes of the bad farming in these coun 

 tries. Evil consequences of knowing only how to farm badly. 

 Exceeding healthiness of the climate. Use of salt mud as a manure. 

 Myrica cerifera abundant on the sands. Wax extracted from it by 

 the French habitants. North-east horn of the Province of New 

 Brunswick. Red land along this coast. Relation of human art to 

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