CHAPTEE XVII. 



Galloway settlement. Glenelg settlers. Buctouche River. Sliediac. 

 French settlement of Barachois. Experience of M. Robichout. 

 Character of the south-eastern promontory of New Brunswick. 

 Numerous house-burnings. Idle young men. Effects of the 

 drought. Tingley s. Mr Murray s farm and success. Marsh 

 lands. Employment of hired labour, Mr Murray s opinion. Pru 

 dence as necessary as knowledge in farming. Rocks on the 

 coast. Red drift. Red rocks of Cape Tormentine. An Irish 

 settler s luck in land. Bay Verte Settlement. Rich land and 

 cheerful houses. Joliecoeur Settlement. Valley of the Missi- 

 quash. Proposed Canals and Railways. Formation of the Flat 

 Valley. Cumberland foi^t and ridge. Extent of the rich marsh 

 lands. Produce they are capable of raising in corn and cattle. 

 Town of Amherst. Minudie Flats and Ferry. Blue mud. Undu 

 lating surface of gypsiferous land. Cup-shaped hollows. Abadeaus, 

 or river-sluices. Town of Sackville. Methodist Academy. Quality 

 of the marsh-lands. Geological structure of the valley. Scooping 

 out of the marsh-flats. Mr Morris, a prosperous Aberdonian. 

 Grinding and growth of Buckwheat. Bogs in the inland part of 

 the marsh. Mode of improving them. Canals like those of Lincoln 

 shire. The bog sinks by drainage. Greater height of tidal waters 

 inland. Richness of the warp-land produced by the flooding. 

 Town of Dorchester. River Memramcook. Shepody Ferry. 



OCTOBER 23. For Sliediac a name which, in the mouth 

 of every real Blue-nose, awakens the flavour of oysters 

 we started early this morning. Turning a little from 

 our way when a few miles from Ri^hibucto, we paid a 

 hasty visit to the Galloway Settlement. A number of 

 Scotch families, from Wigton and Kirkcudbright chiefly, 

 were here thriving on land which was rather vexed with 



