66 TOWN OF COLERIDGE. 



only a few rare trees were being cut up, by this huge 

 force, when I visited the scene of Sir John's indefati- 

 gable exertions, and expensive ingenuity. 



Coleridge, being the lower limit of the navigation of 

 the Upper St John, which drains an extensive and 

 improvable country, must hereafter become a town of 

 considerable consequence. This will be hastened and 

 increased if the proposed improvement in the St John, 

 between the head of the tide-waters near Fredericton, 

 one hundred and twenty miles below the Grand Falls, be 

 carried into effect, and if, by means of a canal through 

 the peninsula at Coleridge, the navigation of the upper 

 can be connected with that of the lower part of the river. 

 It is imfortunate that, in a new country like this, there 

 is always more to be done than there is of money to do 

 it with ; and that, consequently, many most desirable 

 improvements are obliged to stand over, till more 

 favourable times arrive. Colebrook is a very old 

 military station, which it is now thought expedient to 

 strengthen, from its proximity to the American boundary 

 as fixed by the Ashburton Treaty. 



