CHAPTEB XXII. 



Winter at Fredericton. Freezing of the St John River. Sleighing 

 from Fredericton to the city of St John. Darby Hooligan s. Icy 

 road. Sure-footed horses. California!! fever. Effect of ancient 

 gold-mines in the Alps on the price of gold. Journey to Robiustowii 

 in Maine. Christmas-dinner at Pembroke. New England forms of 

 expression. Do tell. Cherryfield. Character of the country. 

 Breakneck hills. Ellsworth. New names of places. Perplexing 

 applications of old names. Bangor. Land-speculating Farming in 

 Maine. Complaints of the climate. Lumber-trade in New England. 

 Pine-barrens of Georgia. Pitch and yellow pines. Sale of the pine 

 barrens. Lumber speculations. Section of the coast-line of Georgia. 

 Relation of its soils to its rocks. Connection between the northern 

 and southern States. Benefit derived by the North. Diminution of 

 the old planting estates. Westward movements of the planters. 

 Sympathy of the North with Southern sentiment. Town, of Water- 

 ville. Stoves in railway carriages. White houses and new towns. 

 Prospects of Portland in Maine. St Lawrence and Atlantic railways. 

 The Irish emigrants and the Yankee captains. The Menhaden 

 of Long-Island Sound. Use of this fish as a manure. Large hauls 

 of it. Manufacture into an artificial manure. Cooper s character of 

 the people of Connecticut. Visiting on New- Year s Day. Lectures 

 on the relations of science to agriculture. City of Albany. Old 

 Dutch houses. The Capitol. Roman Catholic party in Albany. 

 Number of Germans. Legislature of the State of New York. 

 Rarity of re-elections to the Senate. Effects of the system of rotation 

 in office on the quality of the members of Legislature. Professions 

 and occupations of the members of Assembly ; their social position. 

 Influence of the farmers and lawyers. Predominance of English 

 blood. Ages of the members. List of their relative weights. 

 Balance of parties. Party tactics. Opinion in this State upon 

 slavery. Equality of religious sects in the eye of the law. Common 

 School system in New York State. Its history. Former mode of 

 conducting the schools. Evils of the system. Free-school system of 



