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livers above the head of the tide-waters. This also 

 varies in quality, but with farm-buildings is rarely 

 valued so high as ^^20 an acre. Third^ Upland — 

 elevated above both rivers and tides, and which owes 

 nothing to either. Over a large portion of the province, 

 the upland is said to be comparatively fertile, and free 

 from stones. The most improved of this kind of land, 

 however, with farm-buildings attached, rarely sells so 

 high as <^10 an acre. The wild or wilderness land is 

 granted by Government at about 3s. 6d. an acre. 



The Baptists, as I have already observed, are a power- 

 ful body in these provinces. At AVolfville, they have a 

 college or academy, attended by a large number of stu- 

 dents. It is a handsome building, situated on a rising 

 ground, which overlooks the rich flats beneath, the 

 Minas basin beyond, and carries the eye over to the 

 Cobequid Mountains on the other side of the sea. Before 

 reaching Windsor, we passed, at a short distance on our 

 left, a Church of England college, also finely situated, 

 but said not to be so well frequented, or in so flourishing 

 a condition, as its friends would desire. 



By starting early in the morning, I was enabled to 

 advance as far as Kentville before the departure of the 

 stage, and to proceed along the valley to Annapolis, a 

 distance of nearly seventy miles. The road, in general 

 good, though in some places sandy, runs along the foot 

 of what are called the South Mountains, from their skirt- 

 ing this long valley on the south. It rises very gently 

 and very slightly till it reaches an immense bog — called 

 in these provinces a Carriboo bog or Carriboo plain — 

 which is the water-shed from which flow both the Cora- 

 wallis river and that of Annapolis, in opposite directions ; 

 thence it descends as gently to the town of Annapolis. 



Along the lower part of each river there is much good 

 land, but towards the middle of the day's journey, espe- 

 cially about Aylesford and after passing the bog, it 



