386 STATIONS ON THE KEMPT EOAD. 



The traverse from Mitis to Campbelton is usually 

 accomplished, in these light waggons, in three days. 

 By starting at the early hour of one in the morning, I 

 was enabled to perform the entire journey by the 

 evening of the second day, and thus to avoid the 

 disagreeables of two ensuing nights of wilderness 

 accommodation. 



The houses met with in the forest are very few, and 

 their relative distances nearly as follows : — 



To Frazer's, a log-hut attached to a small clear- 

 ance in the wood, is from Mitis about seventeen 

 miles. 

 To Brechut's — a house and clearing on the Metapediac 

 Lake. In this house there is one inferior bed for 

 strangers. When I passed, it was inhabited by 

 three men, without any female. A change of 

 horses can sometimes be got here, but it is not to 

 be depended on, and could not have been got at 

 the time of my visit. Nine miles. 

 To John Low's — a log-hut and small clearing on the 

 Little Metapediac Lake, inhabited by John Low 

 and his wife — eighteen miles. 

 This man was about to remove to a new clearance 

 he was making five or six miles nearer Brechut's; 

 while a son of the latter was to settle in Low's house, 

 on the little lake, so that future travellers will pro- 

 bably find more settlers along this road than it was my 

 fortune to meet with. 



To Noble's — a larger house, better provided than 

 Brechut's, and where a night may be spent, as my 

 conductor said, " sans grand 7msere " — eight miles. 

 To Evans' — a solitary resident in a log-hut, in a 

 wild small hollow of flattish land, surrounded by 

 high, steep, pine-timbered mountains, almost preci- 

 pices, on the banks of the White River^ as it is 

 called by the Canadians — twenty miles. 



