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ment. 7“ * it I found the settlers engaged in securing the harvest which their industry had produced. There were three or four families who had not gathered a crop adequate to their own supply ; but many others had a considerable superabundance.”

I had, while in America, frequent opportunities of knowing the condition of these colonists; and, if possessing land, good houses, large stocks of cattle, abundance of provisions, and avlarge overplus of pro- duce to sell for articles of convenience, together with being free of debt, he considered to constitute inde- pendent circumstances, they are certainlyin that state.

Tryon is situated about twenty miles west of Charlotte Town, nearly opposite to Bay de Verts, in Nova Scotia. It is one of the most populous, and considered the prettiest village on the island. A ser- pentine river winds through it; on each side of which are beautiful farms; The tide flows up about two miles ; but the harbour will only admit of small schooners and boats, it having a dangerous bar at the entrance: extensive clearings were made here when possessed by the French.

Bedeque is situated on the south-west part of the island, about eighteen miles from Tryon. It is popu- lously settled on the different sides of the two rivers into which the harbour branches. The harbour is well sheltered by a small island, near which ships anchor and load. There are two or three ship—build- ing establishments here; and it has for some time been a shipping port for timber.

Egmont Bay lies to the west of Bedeque. It is

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