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tanous, being the lowered continuation of the great chain which pervades the 
whole continent. The ground is not favorable to agriculture, but may prove 
excellent for pafturage. Due attention to the breeding of cattle will not only 
repay the induftry of the farmer, by the home confumption, but be an exten- 
five benefit to our iflands. The country cannot boaft, amidft its vaft forefts, 
timber fit for large mafts, nor yet for the building of large fhips; yet it will 
prove an inexhauftible magazine for that fpecies of timber called lumber, fo 
effential to our fugar plantations. 
Its fituation, in refpeét to the fifheries, is fcarcely inferior to that of 
-Wewfoundland. The vaft banks, called Sable dfland’s, Brown’s, and St. George’s, 
with many others, are frequented by myriads of Cod-fith. It is the duty of 
the Parent State to encourage, with all diligence, this branch of commerce; 
and in a manner fo expeditious and fo frugal, as may anticipate and under- 
fell foreign adventurers. Without that, our remnants of the New World will 
be but of little ufe. The fifheries, the ftaples of Nova Scotia and Newfound- 
land, are open to other nations ; and if they are permitted to excel us in the 
articles expedition and frugality, our labors are truly vain. It is to the antient 
hardy colonifts we muft look up for the fupport of the toils of the fea, and 
the advantages we may expect to gain from them: they fhould have their 
encouragement. But there is another fet of men who of late (a public 
calamity) have made hither an involuntary migration, who with fad hearts 
recollect their exiled land : 
Nos Patria fines, nos dulcia linquimus arva: 
Nos Patriam fugimus. 
Thefe fufferers are in general unufed to the fatigues of a maritime life, and 
ought to be foftered, for their filial piety, at firft, with a parental care; to 
be encouraged in the paftoral life, or in fuch arts as may fupply the failor and 
the fifherman with food, and with materials for their profeffions. If the 
climate is fit for corn, for flax and hemp, let due rewards be given for the fuc- 
cefsful efforts of their induftry. The fucceeding generation, hardened to the 
climate, and early habituated to another kind of life, may join the maritime 
adventurers, and give importance to themfelves, and ftrergth to the ifland from 
which they fprung. 
The harbours of this province are frequent and-excellent. The tides are in many 
places moft uncommonly high. Thofe of the bay of Fundy are the moft re- 
markable ; for they force themfelves into the great creeks with a bore or head 
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