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more fully the passing mountain scenery which glided so 

 rapidly before my eye, as the carriage hastened on. On 

 leaving St John, six weeks before, for my tour through 

 w^estern New York and Canada, I had made an 

 appointment to meet my two New Brunswick travelling 

 companions this very evening, on the shores of the 

 Eestigouche ; and I had still eight miles and a ferry to 

 cross, before I should arrive at Campbelton, the end of 

 my journey. 



From Dixon, I obtained most favourable accounts of 

 the quality and productiveness of the land at this high 

 elevation of 1000 feet. He is the possessor of 800 acres, 

 and farms what is cleared of these. Besides turnips, 

 potatoes, and green crops generally, for which his land is 

 admirably adapted, he grows wheat yearly without fail. 

 His wheat ripens well. The wheat-midge has never 

 visited him as yet, though he is occasionally troubled 

 with rust ; and he has reaped upwards of 50 bushels an 

 acre. Indian corn, he said, would ripen with him in such 

 a season as this. It is to be hoped that, in clearing this 

 fine district of country, the necessity of shelter will not 

 be forgotten ; and that the certainty of the harvests, now 

 that the fields are surrounded by the native forests, may 

 not be sacrificed by laying them too open to the cold 

 winds fi-om the Bay de Chaleur. 



At Dixon's, I met with a Yankee phreriologist, and a 

 Yankee maker of daguerreotypes, who, after a successful 

 campaign in New Brunswick, were so far on their way 

 to Lower Canada, to experiment on the heads and faces 

 of the habitants along the shore of the St Lawrence, 

 A certain number of these peripatetic philosophers find 

 the British provinces a profitable country to explore. I 

 dare not venture to put down the number of dollars I 

 afterwards learned that these men had carried with them 

 from Campbelton, the little town to which I was going. 

 Such men as these not unfrequently hunt in couples j 



