SCULPTURE FOUND ON THE BANKS OF LAKE UTOPIA. 



CHAPTER I. 



New Brunswick : General Sketch of its Resources, Physical Aspect, 

 Climate, and Natural Products — Arrival at St. John — Local Politics 

 - — River Scenery — Fredericton — Natives, their Past and Present — 

 Stone Age, Sculptures, Ancient Kitchen Middens — Disappearance 

 of certain Animals during the Historical Period. 



WHERE is New Brunswick? asked a young friend when 

 the order arrived at Malta directing our regiment to 

 proceed to this colony. I confess to having had a rather vague 

 notion of its whereabouts on the occasion in question, and I 

 dare say there may be some of my readers similarly affected. 

 At all events, my interrogator and myself were soon informed, 

 inasmuch as, fetching the fine old Imperial Atlas presented 

 to the corps by the late Lord Gough when he commanded the 

 regiment, we traced out the limits of New Brunswick as 

 follows : It lies between Lat. 45 and 48° 5' W., Long. 63 5c/ 

 and 67°53' N. It is separated from Lower Canada (now Quebec) 

 by the River Restigouche and Bay of Chaleur on the north, and 

 is bounded on the east by the Gulf of the St. Lawrence ; west, 

 by the State of Maine ; and south, by Nova Scotia and Bay of 

 Fundy. As compared with its sister provinces — to wit, Nova 



