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farm-servants. Oak Bay. View of St Stephens and Calais. 

 Appearance and trade of the rival towns. Advantages of Calais. 

 Stumpage in New Brunswick and Maine. Higher taxes in 

 the States. British and American Milltowns. Execrable roads 

 and bad state of farming in Maine. Marriage ceremony. 

 Journey to Fredericton. Stony farms. Elevated swamp. 

 Macadavic Eiver. General character of the soils. Harvey 

 Settlement of Borderers. Its early difficulties and present 

 prosperity. State of the peasantry of the Scottish Border, 

 Mr Grieves and Mr Pass. Why emigrants more industrious 

 than their sons. Acton and Cork settlements of Irish. Idle 

 ness and discontent. View of the river St John. Unacknow 

 ledged obligations to my conductor, . . .149 



CHAPTER XXI. 



GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



Want of frankness. Official staff. Provincial salaries. Tendency 

 to discontent. &quot; Little Court &quot; of Fredericton. Cathedral and 

 College. Relative numbers of religious sects. Position of the 

 English Episcopal church. State of the University. Necessity 

 for positive and material instruction. Resources of the Pro 

 vince. Quantity and quality of its several soils. Quantity of 

 food it can raise. Population it may sustain. Supply of fossil 

 fuel, its influence on the possible population. Average produce 

 of the different crops. Compared with Great Britain, Ireland, 

 Canada West, and the States of New York, Ohio, and Michigan. 

 Effect of the winter s frost. Length of the agricultural year. 

 Prices of produce, compared with Canada and Ohio. Who 

 ought to, or may, emigrate to this province. Grants of land on 

 condition of making the necessary roads. Amount of immigra 

 tion compared with Canada and New York. Indirect value of 

 settlers to a new country. Exports and imports of St John, 

 compared with those of Maine, Vermont, and New Hamp 

 shire united. Bounty to agriculture. Improvement of the St 

 John River. Railway desirable. European and North-Ameri 

 can Railway. Timber-duty grievance. Common school educa 

 tion. Improvement of the criminal code, . .179 



CHAPTER XXII. 



FROM FREDERICTON IN NEW BRUNSWICK, TO ALBANY IN THE STATE OF 

 NEW YORK. GENERAL REMARKS ON NEW YORK STATE. 



Winter at Fredericton. Sleighing to the city of St John. Sure- 



