BEAUTY OF PARTS OF THE EIVER. 45 



The produce of the potato in this table is small, 

 because of the failure of this crop during the last few 

 years. The turnip culture is not general as yet, but is 

 extending. The intervales of Sunbury county are 

 especially productive in Indian corn. 



I have seldom seen anything of its kind, which, as the 

 sun declined, seemed to me more beautiful than the 

 banks of the St John in this county, as we passed 

 Majorville and Sheffield, and approached the mouth of 

 the Oromucto river. The river, full to the lip, reflecting 

 the light of the western sun towards which we w^ere 

 steaming, shaded on either bank by rows of the Ameri- 

 can elm — which I here saw in its great beauty for the 

 first time, and which, every time I have since seen it 

 growing wild in its favourite localities, has always struck 

 me as the loveliest of American trees — and beyond the 

 banks broad fields of Indian corn in the full rich green 

 of its still unripe growth. In this there was newness 

 enough, perhaps, to give it a charm to my eye, which 

 would not have been seen by one more familiar with 

 the country ; but, after making a large deduction for 

 this, there remained beauty enough over to make this 

 part of the river, at this season, interesting to the oldest 

 dweller in the province. I have since seen no river 

 scenery in America which has left on my mind a livelier 

 impression than this part of my voyage on the St John. 



Fredericton is the seat of Government. It stands on 

 a flat of level intervale land, in some places nearly a 

 mile in width, and raised about thirty feet above the river. 

 Upon this level, thirty years ago, there were only two or 

 three houses, surrounded by thickets and cedar swamps. 

 It is now a considerable town with five or six churches, 

 besides a cathedral, built under the auspices and by the 

 exertions of the present bishop. It has a University, 

 (King's College,) a dissenting academy, a grammar 

 school, normal school, court houses. Government offices, 



