PRINCIPAL SETTLEMENTS. £93 Acadian French. Some difficulties about the tenures of their lands, occasioned them to abandon the place, and settle in other parts of the island. The inhabitants of are, generally speaking, a moral and orderly people. The majority profess the Presbyterian faith ; and their clergymen are in connexion with the synod of Pictou. At Prince Town , where the Reverend Mr Keir , a man of exemplary piety and sincerity of character, has offi¬ ciated for about twenty years, there is a very respect- ,.. able kirk, and a grammar-school; and there are two other kirks on the opposite side of the bay. At Eleanor's, there is a_church erected for the Reverend Mr Jenkins , who has since removed to Charlotte Town . The Scotch Highlanders, and the French Acadians, have also Catholic chapels. On Lennox Island , within , the In- dians, who are of the once numerous Micinac tribe, and profess the Roman Catholic religion, have a chapel and burying-place. This island, where their chief has a house, is their principal rendezvous ; they assemble here about midsummer, on which occasion they meet their priest, or the bishop, who hears con¬ fessions, administers baptisms, marries those who are inclined to enter into that state, and makes other re¬ gulations for their conduct during the year. After remaining here a few weeks, the greater number re¬ sume their accustomed and favourite roving life, and wander along the shores, and through the woods of the neighbouring countries. Cascumpeque is about sixteen miles north from