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such man would be an invaluable gain to the province 

 of New Brunswick. 



The settlement has its school and a permanent school 

 master an intelligent man, with whom I had some con 

 versation not overpaid, nor above the necessity of 

 mending his own clothes, and making shoes for his 

 family. It has regular visits, also, from a Presbyterian 

 clergyman, and was about to build a church with the 

 view of securing his resident services. It has now also 

 its own corn-mill ; and all this where, only twelve years 

 before, was an unexplored wilderness. How much a 

 small knot of industrious men, without capital, and with 

 out the aid of a rushing immigration, such as pours into 

 the North-western States, may, even in unfavourable 

 circumstances, in a short period effect ! 



I conversed with two of the settlers as to their own 

 history and progress. 



Mr Grieves was a shepherd at Whittingham, on the 

 Border. He landed at Fredericton, in 1837, with a 

 family of ten, and with only 7s. 6d. in his pocket. He 

 did not come out immediately to Harvey along with the 

 other settlers, but having received his grant of land, he 

 hired himself as a farm-servant to Colonel Shore at 

 Fredericton, at 30 a-year ; and such of his children as 

 could do anything he hired out also. Supporting the 

 rest of his family out of his earnings, he saved what he 

 could ; and whenever he had a pound or two to spare, 

 he got an acre or two of his land cleared. In this way 

 he did good to the other settlers, by bringing some 

 money among them and giving a little employment. 

 At last, four years ago that was, after seven years 

 service he came out, and settled on his land himself, 

 building a good house for his family right awaij that 

 is, without the previous erection of a log-house, as is 

 usually the case ; and a very good house he appeared 

 to have. He now owns seven hundred acres of land 



