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 town. — Speculators in land. — Iron ore and iron smelting. — 

 Itinerant lecturers.— Mouths of the Tobique and Aroostook 

 rivers. — Potato breakfasts and meals in common. — Mellicete 

 Indians on the Tobique. — Irish settlement and thriving settlers. 

 —Grand Falls and town of Colebrook, . . .33 



CHAPTER III. 



UP THE ST JOHN TO LITTLE FALLS, AND ACROSS THE PROVINCE FROM 

 FREDERICTON TO MIRAMICHL 



Upper St John. — Colonel Coomb's farm. — Growth and consump- 

 tion of buckwheat. — Valley of the Madawaska. — Edmonston, 

 or Little Falls. — Houses of the Acadian farmers. — Tea dinners. 

 — ^Ascent of the river Tobique. — Rich upper lands of the 

 river. — Why buckwheat is unfavourable to good husbandry. — 

 Terraces of the St John River. — Autumnal tints of North 

 America. — Time of growth of grain-crops in New Bi'unswick. — 

 Sumach trees. — Apple-orchards. — Scotch settlement. — Making 

 land at Fredericton. — Rising of stones under the influence of 

 the frost. — Fire-weeds and Canada thistle. — Stanley, the settle- 

 ment of the New Brunswick Land Company. — Price of farms. 

 — Running fire in the fields. — Bilberry swamp. — Fai-m and 

 opinion of an Aberdonian. — Raspberry hay. — Mare's-tail cut for 

 hay. — Boistown. — Great fire of 1825. — Gloomy landscape. — 

 Fires in the forest. — Nakedness of the cleared land. — Success 

 of farmers in New Brunswick. — Price of farms on the Mira- 

 michi River. — Increasing consumption of oatmeal, . 67 



CHAPTER IV. 



FROM THE MIRAMICHI RIVER TO THE CITY OF ST JOHN, BY 

 SUSSEX VALE. 



DouglastowD. — Great heat. — Mode of reclaiming forest land. — 

 Plague of grasshoppers — Average produce, prices and wages. 

 — Chatham. — Golden rod, a troublesome weed. — North Ameri- 

 can oaks. — European weeds on the cleared lands. — History of 

 an Annandale settler. — Bay-du-Vin schoolmaster. — Richi- 

 bucto. — Buctouche River. — Sweet fern soils. — Patience and 

 contentment of the French settlei^s. — Shediac, famed for its 

 oysters. — The Bend-Bore of the river Petitcodiac. — Height of 

 high water above that of the Bay. — Case of Mr Nixon. — Use of 

 river mud. — Greater industry of new settlers. — Burned Bridge. 



