CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XV. 



FROM THE RESTIGOUCHE TO THE MIRAMICHI ROUND THE NORTH-EASTERN 

 PART OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



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Dalhousie to Bathurst. Red land and thriving farms. Settlers 

 from Ayrshire. Their prosperity. Petit Rocher. Kind of 

 land possessed by the Acadian French. Bathurst ; its situa 

 tion and bay. Crops, wages, advice to emigrants. Wheat- 

 midge. Substitution of the oat for the wheat as a crop and 

 for food. Tatagouche River. Unsteadiness of the French as 

 labourers. The Papineau and Nepisiguit rivers. Blazing the 

 bark of birch-trees. Causes of bad farming in these districts. 

 Healthiness of the climate. Extraction of wax from the 

 Myrica cerifera. Red land along the north-east horn of New 

 Brunswick. Relation of human art and natural capability. 

 Roman Catholic Ireland in the settlement of New Bandon. 

 Winter winds of the Bay de Chaleur. Mr Ritchie s. Superior 

 character of the French of this district. Relation of the soil 

 to the intellectual character. Caraquet Settlement. Collector 

 Blackball, an old Aberdoniaii. Influence of early associations. 

 Sullivan s corner. Pocmouche River and Ferry. Carriboo 

 plains. -Little Tracadi. Leper hospital. Singularity of this 

 local leprosy. Sweet-fern country. Dark nights in the woods. 

 Excellence of the roads in this province. Annual expendi 

 ture upon them, ...... 1 



CHAPTER XVI. 



FROM THE MIRAMICHI TO RICHIBUCTO. 



The Miraniichi. Influence of clearing on local climate. Incidents 



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