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grown up under the idea that the darker flour produced 

 from their home-grown red wheats was inferior in nutri- 

 tive quality, and not good enough for their subsistence. 

 The sooner all parties are disabused of this erroneous 

 impression the better — the less of imported flour will be 

 required in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Lower 

 Canada — the more self-sustaining they will become — 

 and the more prosperous the agricultural interest of 

 the colonies. 



Oats imported from Prince Edward's Island are here 

 selling at Is. 8d. currency per bushel, the freight being 

 usually 4d. a bushel from that island, and 3d. from 

 Quebec. This grain is extensively imported from Prince 

 Edward's Island to New Brunswick. Labour is said to 

 be cheaper there — £15 to £18, with food, being the 

 wages of men, who, on the Restigouche, would ask £25 

 to £35 currency. But labour is always higher where 

 lumbering is carried on to any extent. 



The old red sandstones are seen in a nearly horizontal 

 position on many parts of this coast. Along the shore, 

 about a mile below Dalhousie, an interesting cliff" section 

 is exhibited of highly inclined rocks, consisting of lime- 

 stones and calcareous shales, full of fossils, intermingled 

 with harder, somewhat metamorphic beds — altered pos- 

 sibly by the neighbourhood of trap-rocks, which also 

 abound along the south shore of the bay. Among the 

 fossils were abundant large madrepores, cyathophylla, 

 and productae, with tubipores, branched corals, delthyris, 

 &c. ; but whether the beds were upper silurian or moun- 

 tain limestone, as they are coloured by Lyell — I suppose 

 from Logan's survey — I had not leisure to collect fossils 

 .enough satisfactorily to determine. Any scientific 

 geologist who may hereafter visit the Bay de Chaleur 

 will find this an interesting point to examine. 



This morning being fine, Mr Campbell of Dalhousie 

 was kind enough to drive me up the Eel Eiver as far 



