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flooding ; but if the surface be subjected to the plough 

 and exhausted, they are- not restored, as warped lands 

 are, by a deeper ploughing. They grow fair crops of 

 hay for a while, and therefore are dyked where it can 

 easily be done, and are much valued ; but they neither 

 deserve nor are they held in the same esteem as the 

 dyked marshes of Sackville and Amherst. 



The Musquash Marsh, produces from 5 cwt. to 1-|- ton 

 of hay per acre a produce which indicates its inferior 

 quality. Of the dyked marsh, 50 acres produce about 

 40 tons of hay, which may be sold for 2 a ton, and the 

 price asked for it is 10 to 15 an acre a merely 

 nominal or accommodation price, as it is rarely sold 

 alone. A farm of 50 acres of dyked marsh, 50 of cleared 

 upland, and 300 of wood and rock, sold here recently 

 for 800 currency ; and for another farm, now on sale, 

 consisting of 100 acres of dyked marsh under the 

 plough, 50 of intervale, and 850 of cold clay and stony 

 upland, 1500 are asked. 



Colonel Anderson, the owner of a large tract of this 

 marsh, mentioned to me the singular circumstance, that 

 about ten years ago, armies of grubs advancing in a 

 line, and almost filling up ditches on their way, devoured 

 the grass off the marshes, making them quite bare. 

 About a month after, the whole was covered with a short 

 growth of white clover. A similar circumstance, it was 

 added, had been observed in the Sackville marshes in 

 1845. 



Three miles beyond Tilson s, I conversed with Mr 

 M Crain, an Irishman from Belfast. He had been in 

 the province nine years, was prosperous, thriving, and 

 content, and would recommend his countrymen to come 

 here. He had this year raised 380 bushels of potatoes 

 from twenty of seed. 



In this, as in Albert County, are many small water 

 falls, with saw-mills erected upon them by the owners of 



