POOR SCRUB -PINE AND LARCH BARRENS. Ill 



as the small town situated at the angle is appropriately 

 called, and on the south side of the river, a broad belt of 

 elevated flat grey-sandstone country extends for twenty 

 or thirty miles. It is interrupted by stripes of richer 

 land, and of more or less extensive intervales, where the 

 streams from the south traverse it on their way to the 

 Petitcodiac. 



The crossing of this tract, which we did in a diagonal 

 direction, formed the principal feature in this day s 

 journey. For some miles before our arrival at the 

 Turtle Creek, one of these cross-streams, it proved to be 

 a poor flat sandy, in many places stony, scrub-pine 

 and larch barren. Here and there naked green spots 

 of limited extent were seen, the sites of ancient beaver- 

 dams, where these intelligent creatures, taking advan 

 tage of occasional hollows, had contrived to arrest and 

 dam up the water. The distinguishing physical char 

 acter of the whole tract is its extreme flatness, which 

 causes the water of heaven to stagnate upon it, and 

 renders naturally worthless many more capable places, 

 which, at some future day, by means of arterial drain 

 age, may be converted into profitable farms. 



On the Turtle Creek some marsh-land and intervale 

 occurred, not equal to the marshes of the Petitcodiac 

 River, yet yielding two tons of hay an acre and again 

 on the Coverdale Creek five miles beyond ; but all else 

 was the same scarcely broken carriboo wilderness of poor 

 flat country, swampy because it was level, and covered 

 with perpetual scrub-pine, larch, and spruce. 



After a ride of twenty-four miles, we crossed the 

 Petitcodiac, and presently arrived at Nixon s, where I 

 bade adieu to my friends from Albert County, and 

 hastened on my farther journey. 



Albert County has many advantages. It is picturesque 

 and beautiful. It has rich red uplands, most fertile 

 dyked marshes, and abundant fish along its shores. Its 



