258 RIVER LIFE. 



of sliii^ping annually load with lumber, whicli is exported to the 

 mother country. 



The next considerable river in this region is the Ristigouche, 

 larger than the Mirimachi, " two hundred and twenty miles long." 

 " The entrance to this river is about three miles wide, formed by 

 two high promontories of red sandstone." " For eighteen miles 

 up this river, one continuous, safe, and commodious harbor for the 

 largest class of ships is found." " Two hundred miles from its 

 embouchure, whither the tide flows, it is upward of a mile wide ; 

 and from thence to within forty miles of its source it is navigable 

 for barges and canoes." " The appearance of the country" on 

 this river " is exceedingly grand and impressive ; wherever the 

 eye wanders, nothing is to be seen but an immeasurable disper- 

 sion of gigantic hills, with an infinite number of lakes and streams, 

 glens and valleys. Some of the mountains are clothed with the 

 tall and beautiful Pine ; others sustain a fine growth of hard 

 wood ; many have swampy summits, and several terminate in 

 rich meadows and plains ; in form some are conical, others exhibit 

 considerable rotundity, many lank and attenuated, and not a few 

 of most grotesque shapes. Sometimes the precipitous banks of the 

 river are three hundred feet above its bed. Seventy miles from 

 the sea the country becomes comparatively level, and all the way 

 to the head of the Eistigouchc is a fine, bold, open territory, con- 

 sisting of a rich upland, skirted with large tracks of intervale, 

 and covered with a dense and unviolated growth of mixed wood, 

 in which large groves of Pine are very conspicuous." On this 

 river the Pine is said to be of a very superior quality. 



Other rivers might be named of no ordinary interest and ca- 

 pacity. 



The following table gives an account of the lumbering uistall- 

 ments and products of New Brunswick, as taken from the " His- 

 tory of Nova Scotia, Capo Breton," &c., &c. : 



