BRIDGES IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. 57 



I have already expressed my opinion of the exertions 

 made in this province in constructing and maintaining 

 roads and bridges. The reader will have a more definite 

 idea of the amount of industry and expenditure lavished 

 upon this branch of provincial economy, by reading 

 over the following incomplete list of the wooden bridges 

 of a larger size which have been built, and are main 

 tained, in this county of Kent alone, of which Hichi- 

 bucto is the county town. 



Feet in length. 



Little Shediac bridge, . . . 175 



Cocagne do, . . . 2000 



Little Buctouche do., . . . 1300 



Big Buctouche do., . . . 1500 



Richibucto do., . . . 1300 



330 feet of which are 50 feet above low- water. 



Davidson s Creek do., . . . 400 



Bl an chard s Creek do., . . . 430 



D Aigle s Creek do., ... 690 



North-west River do., . . . 630 



Kouchebouguasis do., . . . 750 



Kouchebouguac do., . . . 300 



The energy displayed in executing all these works will 

 be appreciated also from the fact that, twenty years ago, 

 there were not twenty miles of turnpike in the whole of 

 this county. 



The necessity for such a number of long bridges 

 arises from the circumstances to which I have already 

 adverted, in one or two particular cases that the mouths 

 of the rivers along this low coast all terminate in wide 

 creeks or inlets, which occasionally stretch, as the 

 llichibucto does, far into the land. This is probably 

 connected with the additional fact, that the quality of 

 the land has a certain reference to the coast line a belt 

 of poorer, generally sandy or stony land, of six to ten 

 miles wide, running along the shore, and behind this a 

 belt fifteen miles wide, of better, often very good land. 

 The existence of these belts, and of the wide river- 



