94 CHARACTER OF ALBERT COUNTY. 



has yet to be built. Albert is a picturesque county, 

 however, has considerable agricultural capabilities, and a 

 source of wealth in the shad-fisheries of the bay, which 

 will ultimately secure a respectable degree of prosperity 

 and importance to the seat of its county administration. 



Shepody Bay, as well as the two rivers which fall into 

 it, is skirted along its shores, wherever the coast is less 

 bold, by marshed lands dyked and undyked. As in the 

 Sackville district, these low-lands form most valuable 

 additions to the upland farms ; and the sea-mud, as on 

 the Cumberland Basin, is largely employed by the 

 farmers. 



The surface of Albert County is broken by ridges and 

 low mountains, which impart to its scenery a varied, and 

 in many places an exceedingly picturesque character. 

 In the neighbourhood of Shepody Bay, it consists of a 

 series of somewhat elevated ridges, having an approach 

 to parallelism, and a general northerly direction. 

 Between these ridges are low hollows, swamps and 

 marshes; while the summits of the ridges are often stony, 

 and scarcely susceptible of cultivation. The rocks con 

 sist of the grey and greenish-grey sandstones of the 

 coal-measures, and of red sandstones, marls, and conglo 

 merates, with beds and cliffs of gypsum. The former of 

 these rocks give rise to stony and sandy soils, which are 

 poor ; and the latter to rich red uplands, of excellent 

 quality and capabilities. Where these red lands adjoin 

 the dyked marshes, the most fertile and desirable farms 

 are found. 



The marsh-lands on Shepody Bay sell at 8 to 10 

 an acre, and the best red upland at 6. In selling a 

 whole farm, the marsh-land would probably be valued 

 at 8, the most improved upland at 6, the less im 

 proved at 4, and that which is still in wilderness at 

 2 an acre. Above the bay on the Petitcodiac River, 

 the marshes are valued at 10 to 15 an acre. They 



