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some of my New Brunswick friends doing. At all events, 

 I believe it has had a considerable influence In setting in 

 motion and in maintaining that current of human 7novers^ 

 which, beginning in a tiny rivulet at Newfoundland, 

 gathers, as it advances westward, till it forms the great 

 river which is now flowing so fiercely into California. 



On my return from Scotch Corner, I visited a fine farm 

 belonging to my conductor, the president. It Is let on 

 shares to an English farmer. The landlord stocks it, the 

 farm seeds Itself, and the farmer does the farm work, and 

 receives half the profits. The drought of the season had 

 lightened the grain crops, but I saw some fields of excel- 

 lent turnips, and some of oats averaging about twenty- 

 six bushels an acre. In the yard was a fine herd of 

 stock, chiefly mixed Herefords and Devons, with a little 

 short-horn blood. They were coarse and thick In the 

 skin, but probably on that account better adapted to the 

 climate. On the whole, though the owner thought I 

 did not sufliciently praise them, I did not afterwards see 

 in the province a herd In all respects equal to them. 



At Woodstock, in the evening, we were gratified with 

 an interesting musical entertainment. It seems that the 

 Orangemen are numerous In some parts of New Bruns- 

 wick, and that Woodstock has its full share of them. 

 Some twelve months or more ago, a riot took place 

 between them and the Romanists, (Mickeys, as they are 

 here called,) attended by the destruction of a consider- 

 able amount of property, which the county of course was 

 called upon to pay. But the county applied to the pro- 

 vincial House of Assembl}", to have the sum in whole or 

 in part paid out of the provincial treasury ; and in refer- 

 ence to this matter, my fellow-traveller Mr Brown, as a 

 member of assembly, had given a vote which was unsatis- 

 factory to the Woodstock Orangemen. Hearing of his 

 arrival, therefore, instead of lynching him, as they might 

 have done a little farther West, they serenaded us all at 



