CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 



A WEEK IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



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Halifax in !N"ova Scotia. — Roman Cattolic fete and pi'ecedence. 

 — Coloured people and Indians. — Maritime commerce and 

 fisheries. — Agricultural character of the coast line of North 

 America. — Letters of Agricola. — Population and agricultural 

 produce. — Road from Halifax to Windsor. — Soils and forests. — 

 Pacing horses. — Gypsum quarries. — Alluvial lands of the Bay 

 of Minas. — Their varieties and prices. — Sand plain of Ayles- 

 ford. — Vale and town of Annapolis. — Ice-holes and iron-works. 

 — Healthiness of the country. — Handiness and provincialisms 

 of the Nova Scotians, ..... 



CHAPTER 11. 



UP THE RIVER ST JOHN IN NEW BRUNSWICK — FROM THE CITY OF 

 ST JOHN TO THE GRAND FALLS. 



Area and population of New Brunswick. — The lumber-trade, its 

 benefits and evils. — City of St John. — Diminution in its import 

 trade and in the provincial revenue. — River St John. — Rich 

 river fiats. — Average produce of Queen's and Sunbuiy counties. 

 — City of Fredericton.— Farm on the St John. — Intervale land, 

 its different qualities and values. — Emigration fever. — Wood- 

 stock. — Quality and value of land in its neighbourhood. — 

 Exhausting culture of first settlers. — Farming on Shares. — 

 Charivari of the Mickeys of Woodstock. — Farm at Jackson- 



