16 
Fourth 
day’s 
march. 
the inn, their beds, being as was the case at every halting place, young 
spruce boughs laid on the floor. The detachment of the 63rd regi¬ 
ment were lodged in a school house, and building in rear, about 200 yds. 
distant from the inn. 
This day's march completely knocked up one of the teams of the 
equipment sleds. On examining the sled it w 7 as found that the run¬ 
ners were four inches further apart than those of the others, and this 
circumstance alone made the draught so heavy, that a new sled and 
team had to be procured. This is a clear proof that to have attempted 
the journey with the sleds made in England, would have resulted in 
failure. The roads were very heavy during the day's journey. 
Fourth day. — Sunday, Feb. 9. Tilley’s to Woodstock, 32 miles. 
The weather was lovely beyond description, bright and clear, without 
a cloud in the sky, but the cold was intense and the roads still very 
heavy. The remarks on the road yesterday apply almost equally well 
to this day's march. The road winds along the bank of the river the 
whole way, passing along the sides of gently sloping cultivated hills, 
or steep banks covered with trees and intersected by numbers of small 
streams and hollows. Some of the descents in the road were very 
steep, and the slews wer% so numerous, as to endanger the poles of the 
sleds; for when a pole slews, the lowest side generally sticks in the 
snow, and thus throws a tranverse strain on the pole. The whole of 
the road between Fredericton and Woodstock is a very costly one to 
keep in repair, owing to the number of bridges necessary. Two 
ravines of considerable depth were passed to day ; the first, about seven 
and a half miles from Tilley's is the rocky gorge through which the 
Pokiock stream runs down to the St John; it is very narrow, but of 
considerable depth, in some places amounting to sixty or seventy feet. 
On this stream there are several saw mills. The other, seven miles 
further on is called “ Sullivan's Creek." It is spanned by a bridge of 
timber, resting on granite foundation, which was found to be necessary, 
as all the bridges put up over it in the usual style of the country had 
been carried away in floods. The remains of several of these bridges 
are still visible in the channel below the present bridge. 
The mid-day halt was made to-day at a tavern on the Eel river, 
which is a tributary of the St John, separating the counties of York 
and Carleton. Here the road is only seven miles from the termination 
of the St Andrews railway at Canterbury, by which line “ F " Battery 
of the 4th Brigade, Boyal Artillery, was sent up country. Eel river is 
spanned by a covered bridge, and is navigable for boats for a consider¬ 
able distance. After crossing it, the road passes through a more level 
and better cultivated country, but still close to the river. The party 
arrived at Woodstock about 6.30 p.m.; the men were lodged in a large 
building (capable of accommodating 1100 men) which had been 
hired as a barrack, and the officers were in a hotel. Woodstock is a 
town which is rapidly increasing, as it has extensive iron works in the 
neighbourhood. From it several roads diverge, one to St Andrews, 
one to Houlton in Maine, one to Fredericton, and the road up country. 
As the road now approaches the American frontier, it was considered 
