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have ever met with. It was literally paved with huge 

 blocks, and was kept untouched as a monument of what 

 the whole had been. It must, I suppose, have been the 

 industrious perseverance of my friend Mr Brown, in 

 making a farm out of such unpromising materials, which 

 caused his neighbours, twenty years ago, to force him 

 from the tail of the plough, and, in spite of opposition, 

 send him to the House of Assembly every year since. 

 u We don t want educated men for legislators, or men 

 specially instructed for them, to fill our public offices,&quot; 

 say the democrats of North America 5 and they point to 

 such men as Mr Brown. &quot; You see he was taken from 

 the plough-tail, and is still a poor farmer, and yet he 

 does as well, and holds as high a place as any of them.&quot; 

 These three Tower ridges are extensively cleared and 

 settled. Wilson s inn, which is about a mile beyond 

 them, and eighteen miles from St Stephens, is at the 

 junction of the St Stephens road with the high-road 

 between Frederic-ton and St Andrews. From this point 

 the road is bad, and for the most part through an uncleared 

 wilderness of slate-country. After about six miles, we 

 crossed Jones Brook, a feeder of the Digdiquash River, 

 and ascending a long hill, came upon a flat table-land, 

 from which the water appears unable to escape. It forms 

 several miles of a deep bog and cedar-swamp, through 

 which flows the Deadwater Brook a deep, black, sleepy 

 stream, winding along the flat with scarcely any apparent 

 motion. This flat swamp extends a great many miles to 

 the right and left, but is only a few miles wide, occupying 

 the space between the feeders of the Digdiquash and those 

 of the Macadavic rivers. It struck me as very remarkable, 

 that so much water should be able to rest on so narrow 

 a flat between two rivers running at so much lower a 

 level. But New Brunswick, as we have already seen, is 

 distinguished for the numerous separate tracts of almost 

 perfectly flat table-land of all qualities which it possesses. 



