46 CITY OF FREDEKICTON. 



legislative halls, "w ell-built streets, barracks for a thou- 

 sand men, and a population probably of four or five 

 thousand people. The soil of the level on which it 

 stands is light and sandy, resting at a variable depth on 

 a bed of clay. The hill-slope behind is in general very 

 stony, and costly to reclaim, and is covered for the 

 most part with the native forest of pine. Opposite the 

 town is the mouth of the Nashwauk, a considerable 

 stream, which here falls into the St John; and a little 

 above the town that of the Nashwauksis, or little Nash- 

 wauk. The former is navigable for some distance into 

 the interior. 



The St John itself is here confined within higher 

 sloping banks, and is about three-quarters of a mile 

 wide. The influence of the tide is observed about four 

 miles above the town ; and at Fredericton it seldom 

 rises more than fifteen inches, so that it may be said to 

 be situated at the head of tide-water. Steam and horse 

 ferries are established on the river, by which a regular 

 communication is kept up with the opposite shore. 



IQth August. — At Fredericton I was joined by Mr 

 James Brown, a member of the Provincial Assembly, 

 and by Dr Robb, Professor of Natural History in King's 

 College, who accompanied me during the whole of my 

 subsequent tour in the province, and to both of whom I 

 was indebted for much information and assistance. The 

 familiarity of the former with the practical agriculture 

 and economical condition of the province, and of the 

 latter with its geology, in so far as it had previously 

 been made out, enabled me to arrive much more rapidly 

 at satisfactory conclusions, in regard to the agricultural 

 capabilities of the province, than I should otherwise have 

 been able to do. 



Early this morning we started in an open carriage up 

 the right bank of the river, and stopped to breakfast at 

 Oakhill, a farm lately bought by Mr Jardine, a merchant 



