CHAPTEK XIV. 



Leave Mitis for the Restigouche. — Nature of the road through the 

 forest. — Clearings and accommodation by the way. — Moimtainous 

 character of the country. — Frazer's. — Elevated table-land. — Great 

 Metapediac Lake. — Rich flat land around it. — Brechut's. — Little 

 Metapediac Lake. — John Low's. — Rough road. — Dark night. — Burned 

 forests. — Burned bridges. — Cause of the burnings. — Their effect on 

 the landscape and on the soil. — Noble's.— Evans's Hollow. — Solitary 

 life in the forest. — Hardwood ridges. — First green fields and clear- 

 ings. — Home thoughts and associations. — Scottish settlers twelve 

 hundred feet above the sea.^How such spots become known at 

 home. — Beautiful scenery. — Fine land and farms. — Dixon's. — Abun- 

 dant wheat a thousand feet above the sea. — Yankee phrenologists, 

 soapmakers, and other adventui-ers ; their luck in the provinces. — 

 Campbelton.— Mr Ferguson of Atholl House. — Changes in a new 

 country during a single lifetime. — River Restigouche. — Good land on 

 either side. — Excursion up the river.— Flat lands. — Views on the 

 river. — Scottish settlers from Arran. — General prosperity of these 

 settlers. — Attachment to home recollections. — Goatfell. — Ilfracombe 

 and the Causeyside. — Good land on the Upper Restigouche. — 

 Alleged home ignorance of provincial geography. — Similar real 

 ignorance in the colonies. — Indian settlement opposite Campbelton. 

 — Progress of the Indians in farming. — Their winter employments. — 

 Want of a school. — Sugar-loaf Movmtain, and the view from it. — 

 Geological reason for the quality of the land. — Good land on the 

 Canadian side, in the county of Bonaventure. — Agricultural societies 

 in this remote region. — Encouragement given to such societies by 

 the Canadian Legislature. — Agricultural show on the Restigouche. — ■ 

 Prosperity of the lumber ti-ade on this I'iver. — Historical recollections 

 of the river and bay.— Old French settlements. — Town of Dalhousie. 

 — Increase in the growth of wheat in this district. — High price of 

 Canadian flour. — Fossiliferous limestone at Daliiousie. — Settlers on 

 the Eel River. — Their prospei'ity. — Gi'eat success of the potato 

 culture.— Supposed superiority of the lumberer over the farmer. — • 

 Greater value of the resident farmer to the pi'ovince. — Effects of a 



