86 ANOTHER PROSPEROUS ABERDONIAN. 



here repeated ; so that, if there be no dislocation west 

 of the Fort Lawrence Ridge, there must be one some 

 where in the valley of the La Planche. 



This section presents in miniature if the dislocation 

 be in the La Planche marsh a view of the geological 

 formation of a very large portion of the surface of New 

 Brunswick, as will be more clearly shown in a subse 

 quent chapter. It is in the hollows formed by the ancient 

 sea-channels that the muddy waters have deposited the 

 sedimentary matter which now forms the basis of these 

 broad and fertile marsh-lands. 



I was much pleased with a short visit we paid in pass 

 ing to a Mr Morris, an old settler from Aberdeen, who, 

 like nearly all the other Aberdeenshire men I have met 

 in North America, appears to have prospered here very 

 much. He has been upwards of thirty years in the 

 country, and, being an ingenious man, owns and works 

 mills for carding and falling, for grinding flour, oatmeal, 

 and buckwheat, for making pot-barley, and for sawing 

 timber. He is also a maker of carding-machines, and a 

 farmer to a considerable extent. I saw near his house 

 one of the finest fields of turnips I have met with since I 

 left the Miramichi River. His opinion was, that good 

 farmers, who are themselves industrious men, may safely 

 come to, and would succeed in this country, and that 

 what the province wants is a class of farmers who know 

 how to make the most of the land. He did not mean 

 take the most out of it, for this kind of farming the pre 

 sent landholders over all North America understand and 

 practise, to the almost total exclusion of everything else. 



Of all his milling operations, the grinding of buck 

 wheat interested me most, as I had never seen this grain 

 in the mill before. I was struck with the cleanness of 

 the husk taken off from so small a grain, and with the 

 perfect separation which seemed to take place between 

 it and the white kernel within. 



