82 THE TOWN OF SACKVILLE. 



the Au Lac stream and marshes ; next a slightly ele 

 vated upland, which separates these from the Tantamare 

 Biver and its marshes; and finally, after crossing the 

 latter, we ascended to the town of Sackville. 



This town and settlement is beautifully situated on an 

 undulating red-sandstone ridge, generally of rich soil, 

 and affording numerous favourable building sites, of 

 which, in the village itself, many have been judiciously 

 selected and tastefully built upon. The settlement is 

 some miles in length, and, towards the east and south, 

 looks down on the broad marsh-lands often called the 

 Sackville Marshes and the head-waters of the Beau 

 Basin. 



In addition to the storehouses, public buildings, and 

 residences which the traffic, the law, the physic, and the 

 religious duties of so fertile and comparatively populous 

 a district require, this town of Sackville derives addi 

 tional size and consequence from a large academy or 

 college, erected some years ago by a wealthy resident 

 merchant, and placed by him under the direction of the 

 Methodist body, which is numerous and influential in the 

 province. The building itself is plain and simple in its 

 architecture ; but it is large, stands in a commanding 

 situation, and, with the houses of the professors or masters 

 of the academy, adds greatly to the size and appearance 

 of the town. 



I had the pleasure of being conducted through the 

 institution by one of the masters, of whom it has three, 

 besides the Principal. It has at present but 50, in better 

 times it had 80 pupils, who are lodged together by twos 

 in each room, and are boarded and instructed in all the 

 ordinary branches of education, and provided with every 

 thing but books, for 25 a-year. Certain extra classes 

 are charged in addition ; but it is provided that, in no 

 case, including every expense, shall the annual cost 

 exceed 80 currency. A library and collections of 



