72 EICH LAND AND GOOD HOUSES. 



and even the swampy spots which here and there occur ; 

 but there is great latent capability in the red loams of 

 which it almost all consists, and a man who has the luck 

 to be industrious and persevering will be able to esta 

 blish his family well on almost any part of it. 



After crossing the Gaspereau River a small stream 

 which expands at its mouth into wide marshes two 

 miles brought us to the Bay Verte Settlement, which 

 forms quite a pretty village at the head of the bay. It 

 is the seat of some fisheries and a little trade, and stands 

 on high ground, overlooking and separated from the 

 sea by extensive marshes, dyked and undyked. 



Chishohn s we found a clean comfortable house, at 

 which we were well served by his managing wife, and 

 where we should have been well pleased had our time 

 permitted us to stay longer. But necessity drove us on, 

 after dinner, through rich red land, which reminded me, 

 in apparent quality, of the richest red lands of Scotland. 

 The country was undulating, had generally a good 

 natural drainage, was extensively cleared, had evidently 

 been long settled, and was parcelled out into fine farms, 

 on which smart white-washed sometimes fanciful and 

 ambitious-looking houses were to be seen. This cheer 

 ful air, together with the comfortable appearance and 

 size of the farm-houses, accompanied us from this village 

 of Bay Verte as far as Amherst, at the head of the Bay 

 of Fundy the frontier town of Nova Scotia and thence 

 through Sackville to Dorchester, on the River Mem- 

 ram cook. 



On our left, as we advanced, ran the River Missiquash 

 here, I believe, the boundary of the province 

 through extensive marshes $ while along the upland 

 which skirts them stretches the settlement of Jolicur, 

 (Jolie cceur^) through which we passed. This settlement 

 consists of a succession of fine upland farms, of reddish, 

 loamy, and sandy soils, enriched by the marsh-lands 



