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who engage in the arduous enterprize of 

 breaking into new and uncultivated wilds. 

 They are often known to wear out their lives 

 in toil and labour, for the benefit of those who 

 come after them, and who reap, comparatively 

 speaking, where they have not sown. The 

 flourishing state of the city, however, since it 

 took its rise, in a few log and bark huts, about 

 forty years ago, and the rising prosperity of 

 numerous settlements, though confined prin- 

 cipally as yet to the borders of rivers and well 

 watered vallies, speak volumes in favour of the 

 active, persevering, successful industry, and 

 enterprizing spirit of the loyalists and people 

 of the province, and of the advantageous fos- 

 tering care of the British Government. 



I left Saint John the following morning after 

 my arrival in the city, for the Vale of Sussex, 

 which presents to the eye some beautifully 

 picturesque views, on the river Kennebeckasis, 

 as its tributary streams bend their course 

 through some good and well cultivated farms. 

 This settlement, in its first formation, was 

 much indebted to the active energy and inde- 

 pendent public spirit of the late Hon. George 

 Leonard, who lived in a spacious and handsome 

 residence in this pleasant valley. Near to the 

 village is a fine spring, from which salt of an 



