126 A DISCONTENTED lEISHMAN. 



currency. Another, containing 100 acres of upland, of 

 which about 60 are cleared, and as much marsh as cuts 

 20 tons of hay, is offered for £400. Men of small 

 capital, therefore, would find at once in this district a 

 comfortable provision, not of luxuries, but of necessaries 

 for their families, by the purchase of such farms as these. 



From Hampton to Hammond Bridge the drive was 

 very beautiful. The low marsh and river on our right, 

 the picturesque trap ridges and isolated hills, the rounded 

 conglomerate masses, covered with hardwood timber, 

 and the distant mountain ranges, were all finely brought 

 out and blended together by the sinking sun. The road 

 lay along the upturned edges of conglomerate rocks, 

 dipping at a high angle towards the river ; and the 

 surface, as before, was covered with detached masses of 

 the rock, and with drifted sand and gravel. Though the 

 removal of the stones from such land must be very 

 laborious, yet we passed by the way several fine farm- 

 houses, with much completely cleared and apparently 

 good land. 



From this point (eleven miles to St John) a change 

 came over the country. We entered a region of more 

 or less metamorphic intermingled slate and trap rocks, 

 on which lay poor, sandy, and gravelly soils. Here and 

 there scattered clearings were seen, but the greater part 

 of the surface is still covered with forests of native pine. 



About a mile after we had crossed the Hammond 

 Bridge, I entered the log-hut of a poor Irishman upon a 

 small clearing. Though he had been many years in the 

 province, and was still in the prime of life, he was 

 miserably poor and discontented. He was almost the 

 only one of his countrymen whom I had met with, up to 

 this time, in New Brunswick, who had nothing but com- 

 plaints to make of the country, and of the hard work he 

 was doomed to. He had landed near the place, and had 

 never moved farther, because he had no one to depend 



