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The failure of the timber-trade has caused a consi 

 derable emigration from this part of the province, chiefly 

 of lumberers and others who were unaccustomed to the 

 settled life of the farmer, and who saw in the country 

 immediately around them no great promise of large 

 success, were they to engage in the laborious cultivation 

 of it. The time will come, however, when a home 

 grown people will spread over and subdue a large por 

 tion of this at present unpromising region. 



Returning to St George, we drove ten miles in an 

 opposite direction to 1 Etang Harbour, on the shores of 

 the bay. The coast is rocky, and the cove or harbour, 

 being sheltered by low wooded promontories and islands, 

 is not only a beautiful still spot of clear water, but is 

 very safe for vessels, of which we saw none. The 

 export consists of lime, which is burned here in consi 

 derable quantities for export to Boston. About a cord 

 of wood is used for each ton of lime. The rock is a 

 blue, occasionally, where trap-veins touch it, whitish and 

 crystalline limestone, in thin beds interstratified with 

 metamorphic clay-slate, and in thick layers of twenty or 

 thirty feet, forming distinct rocky elevations, which are 

 seen to run inland, in a north-easterly direction, for a 

 considerable distance. The strata are nearly vertical, 

 and the limestone without fossils ; but as red sandstone 

 occurs in one of the small islands in the harbour, it is 

 not impossible that these may be metaraorphic rocks 

 belonging to the limestone and red marl group, repre 

 sented in the section I have given in a previous part of 

 this chapter. It would have been interesting, in refer 

 ence to this point, to have been able to observe the 

 conformity or otherwise of this red sandstone with these 

 vertical lime-bearing strata. We rode through much poor 

 land in this excursion, but we saw much good clay-soil 

 also, now cold and poorly-productive, which drainage and 

 the lime here burned would wonderfully improve. 



