CHAPTEE XIX. 



Butternut tree on calcareous soils. Value of the land. Poor land, what 

 it means in a new country. Windfalls. Smith s Creek. Influence 

 of circumstances on the direction of agricultural progress. Unnamed 

 mountains. Difficult bridge. Hollows and pits of the gypsum 

 deposits. Trees growing on pure gypsum. Agricultural experi 

 ments with it. New Jersey loyalists in the valley of the Trout Brook. 

 Change within sixty years. Causeless grumblings in New Bruns 

 wick. Fall of snow. Purple colour of the sky. Clearness of the 

 moonlight sky. Danger of too much clearing of the native forests. 

 Mildew on tidal rivers. Failure of the wheat and barley crops. 

 Buckwheat cakes and bran. Good red land. Surly host. Scenery 

 on the Hammond River. Igneous rocks. Geological structure of 

 the country. Dislocations and repetitions of strata. Imaginary 

 section of the province. Relation of its soils to its rocks. Econo 

 mical value of a knowledge of these relations. Scenery on Loch 

 Lomond. Annexationists in St John. Complaints and distress in 

 Maine. Comparative condition of Maine and New Brunswick. 

 Musquash marshes. Value of farms. Plague of Grubs in the 

 marshes. A contented Irishman. How to ruin a farmer. Religious 

 sects at St John. River Lepreau. Importance of the physical 

 characters of soils. Darkness of moonless nights in the woods. 

 St George or Macadavic. Drive up the river. Poor land upon it. 

 Limestone of 1 Etang Harbour. Drive to St Andrews. 



OCTOBER 31. The butternut or white walnut, Juglans 

 cinerea,) from which this ridge is called, is described as 

 growing in rich woods, and on the banks of rivers.* 

 But the true natural predilections of a tree are to be 

 observed where it thrives in natural forests untouched by 

 * DR TORRY Botany of New York, 



