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the two oxen and the boy, would certainly have cost 

 less, and would have enabled the man and the other 

 horse to go over nearly double the extent of ground. I 

 know that a foreigner will find as great incongruities, 

 and almost as frequent a waste of strength, upon our 

 English fields in some counties ; but we must not com 

 pare ourselves with others with the view of finding in 

 their faults an excuse for our own. In England and 

 Scotland we are gradually advancing ; and those who 

 refuse to follow in improvement are, sooner or later, 

 compelled by circumstances to give up their farms in 

 favour of those who are willing to go forward. And, 

 as I have elsewhere remarked, these obstinate men, in 

 very many cases, transport their old practices with their 

 grievances beyond the Atlantic, and have there 

 established and taught, and still practise, the older 

 methods, which had failed to succeed at home. 



Crossing Shepody Kiver, we passed through New Hor- 

 ton Settlement, beautifully situated along the southern 

 side of Haw-haw Bay. Along the sea-level, it enjoys the 

 benefit of rich marsh-lands ; and, on the slopes, of warm 

 fertile soils formed from the red gypsiferous marls. In 

 its gardens, orchards, artificially-planted trees, commo 

 dious, large, conspicuously-whitened houses, and exten 

 sively-cleared land, it had a character of age and com 

 pleteness about it that is very agreeable to the Old World 

 traveller in youthful regions like this. 



From Horton and Annapolis in Nova Scotia, many 

 settlers have established themselves on Shepody Bay. 

 I suppose this settlement of New Horton has been 

 established and named by them : and it certainly deserves 

 the name, both because of the rich marshes it possesses, 

 and because of the rich red upland upon which the farm 

 houses are situated and arable culture is carried on. It 

 has been often observed, however, and in many countries, 

 that most skill and industry are exhibited where the land 



