CHAPTEE III. 



Upper St John. — Colonel Coomb's farm. — Growth and consumption of 

 buckwheat. — Aversion to the oat among settlers of French extraction. 

 — Valley of the Madawaska. — Edmonston, or Little Falls. — Houses 

 of the Acadian farmers. — Tea-dinners.— Ascent of the river Tobique. 

 — Rich upper lands of this river. — Large growth of buckwheat. — 

 Why buckwheat is unfavourable to good husbandry. — Terraces of 

 the St John River. Autumnal tints of North America — Ferry farm 

 at Woodstock. — Time of growth of grain crops in New Brunswick. — ■ 

 Sumach trees. — Apple orchards. — Scotch settlement. — Making land 

 at Fredei'icton. — Rising of stones under the influence of the frost. — 

 Turnip culture in the pi'ovince. — Fire-weeds and Canada thistle. 

 — Stanley, the settlement of the New Brunswick Land Company. 

 — Heavy wheat in this province. — Price of farms.— Hop culture. — 

 Running fire in the fields. — Bilbery swamp. — Farm and opinion of 

 an Aberdonian. — Advice to intending emigrants. — Wild raspberry. — 

 Raspbeny hay. — Mare's-tail cut for hay. — Boistown. — Great fire of 

 1825. — Gloomy landscape. — Fires in the forest. — Nakedness of the 

 cleai-ed land.— An Irish settler. — Evil of farmers engaging in the 

 timber trade. — Deserted farms, and emigration to the United States, 

 how brought about. — Success of farmers in New Brunswick, who 

 mind their farms only. — Price of farms on the Miramichi River. — 

 Inci-easing consumption of oatmeal. — Legislative bounty for the 

 erection of oatmeal mills. 



Monday^ 20th August. — At nine in the morning we 

 started for Edmonston, or the Little Falls, at the mouth of 

 the Madawaska, where the latter river empties itself 

 into the St John. The distance is about forty miles. 

 After ascending the right bank about a mile, we crossed 

 the river by a ferry-boat, and continued our journey up 

 the left bank, as only a few miles farther up the state of 

 Maine comes down to the water's edge, and the river 



