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clear when the wind is northerly ; and, consequently, 

 the light and heat thrown upon the tree, and any other 

 influences, chemical or actinic, which the sun s rays bear 

 with them, are proportionately great. The wind itself, 

 also, is cold and very dry. The south wind, blowing from 

 the Gulf Stream, though warmer, is moister, is attended 

 also by clouds and mists, and usually ends in rain. The 

 heat, light, and surface evaporation, being therefore less 

 when the south wind blows, the flow of sap to supply the 

 latter may decrease in consequence. It is possible, how 

 ever, that the chemical influences of the rays of the morn 

 ing sun may enter as a sensible element into the case. 



One does not see in this and the adjoining province 

 of Nova Scotia, which lie remote from the common route 

 of emigrant settlers, that wholesale system of clearance 

 and frenzied cutting and burning of the primeval forests 

 which are witnessed in some parts of Upper Canada, 

 and in the newer States of the west, to which the fever 

 of the year may carry the European crowds. And yet, 

 upon the whole, in this province a great deal is doing. 

 It is necessary to penetrate into the wilderness in various 

 directions, and from various points, as I have done, to 

 obtain anything like a true idea of the actual progress 

 of the agricultural industry of the colony. In such a 

 course of exploration, we see a little doing here, and a 

 little there, over the whole wide area of the province, 

 wherever anything like a passable track has yet been 

 cut into the wilderness ; and if we put together in our 

 minds the numerous small operations we have thus seen 

 going on, we shall conclude that, on the whole, as I 

 have said, a very great advancement is making. Still, 

 as the surplus produce of the cultivators is by no means 

 sufficient to meet the demand for wheat and oats by the 

 other inhabitants of the colony, and the prices of pro 

 duce, as I shall afterwards more fully show, are really 

 high, there is every encouragement to the rural popula- 



