CHAPTEE IV. 



Douglastown.— Great beat.— Value of farms.— Mode of reclaiming forest 

 land. — Expense of clearing soon repaid. — P]ague of grasshoppers, in 

 New Brunswick and ISew England. — Legislative grants for the pro- 

 motion of agriculture. — Average produce, prices and wages in Nor. 

 thumberland county, — Town of Chatham-. — Golden rod, a trouble- 

 some weed. — North American oaks.— European weeds on the cleared 

 lands. — History of an Annandale settler. — Bush-bean. — Provincial 

 encouragement to elementary and grammar schools. — Bay-du- Viu 

 schoolmaster. — Eichibucto. — Buctouche river. — Sweet fern soils — 

 Patience and contentment of the French settlers, and restlessness of 

 the Anglo-Saxons. — Shediac, famed for its oysters. — The Bend-Bore of 

 the river Petitcodiac. — Height of high water above that of the Bay. — 

 Country between the Bend and the city of St John. — •Case of Mr 

 Nixon, and his opinion of New Brunswick as a poor man's country. — 

 Use of river mud as an improver of the soil. — Greater industry 

 among new settlers than among the native-born. — Blighting of buck- 

 wheat. — Burned Bridge. — Beauty of Sussex Vale. — Mr Evanson's home 

 farm, its value and produce. — Mr Aiton's farm. — Rent and course of 

 cropp ing, — Hampton, and its conglomerate soils. — Fine-looking 

 yeomen of New Brunswick. — Price of farms around Hampton. — A 

 discontented Ii'ishman. — Dyked marshes of St John and the Atlantic 

 border. — Farms around St John, their quality and value. — Rate of 

 wages for agricultural labour in the several counties of the province. 



August 27. — Yesterday and to-day have been exces- 

 sively hot. We found it so as we travelled down the 

 river in our open carriage, but we had no means of ascer- 

 taining the temperature. At Douglastown, I am informed 

 that the thermometer has frequently stood during the 

 past week as high as 95° Fahr. in the shade. 



On this, and a subsequent visit to the Miramichi, I was 

 much indebted to the hospitality of Mr Rankine, one of 



