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done, more is yet wanting to complete the 

 work ; cutting trenches on each side of the 

 road would be serviceable in draining off the 

 water, and rendering the base of it more solid. 

 Bridsres should be erected over the different 

 streams, instead of the inconvenient make-shift 

 now resorted to, of placing three logs across 

 them ; a contrivance very awkward and unsafe 

 for a horse to pass, and much too narrow for a 

 cart. In a few years these defects will un- 

 questionably be remedied, as the government 

 is desirous of keeping open this line of com- 

 munication, and rendering it as commodious 

 as circumstances will permit : and in conse- 

 quence of orders given for that purpose, se- 

 veral soldiers of the 10th Royal Veteran Batta- 

 lion, with their families, were settled in 1814 

 vipon lands allotted to them at convenient in- 

 tervals, under the personal direction of the 

 Surveyor-General of the province. These few 

 settlers are not, however, sufficient wholly to 

 answer the intended purpose, and most proba- 

 bly others will hereafter be placed on proper 

 places, of which many may be found, where 

 there are large portions of good land, and some 

 extensive brides^ that might very speedily be 

 brought into a state of moderate fertility : at 

 present there are only a few sheds at different 



