350 



great advances in cultivation are perceptible, 

 and which have been guided by a competent 

 knowledge in a judicious system of husbandry. 

 The soil is excellent, and requires but little aid 

 to render it uncommonly fertile ; it will produce 

 grain of all sorts in great perfection, and most 

 species of succulents. In several parts flax and 

 hemp could be raised in great quantities. Pot 

 and pearl ash are made here, and with the wheat 

 form a principal part of the traffic that is 

 carried on ; there are, however, several saw- 

 mills in almost constant work. A communi- 

 cation by roads in various directions has been 

 opened with the adjacent townships. In the 

 River St. Francis there are several small islands 

 along the front of this tract, and although they 

 are rather obstructive to the navigation, yet 

 from their beauty, and the picturesque variety 

 exhibited by the foliage of the different species 

 of trees they are covered with to the water's 

 edge, they can hardly be wished away. A 

 large extent of this valuable land is the property 

 of the Honourable John Caldwell. The popu- 

 lation is about 350 persons. 



Brompton, in the county of Buckingham, 

 is irregular in figure, bounded on the north-east 

 and north-west by Melbourne, on the south by 

 Orford, on the east by the St. Francis, and on 

 the west by Ely. In the northerly part and by 



