342 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND . tef, it is a favourite amusement among all classes to drive in cabrioles, which are slight open carriages set on runners, which slip easily and rapidly over the snow and ice. The inhabitants of Charlotte Town support them¬ selves by various means. Those connected with the government offices, custom-house, &c, receive their pay from government; for the colony does not pay its civil list, nor would it at present be prudent to require the legislature to provide for the same, as the improve¬ ment of the colony, by opening roads, erecting bridges, and the encouragement of agriculture, to which the colonial revenue is appropriated, would be retarded. The legislature have voted a sum annually to the present worthy Governor, but probably not so much as they should, as he spends his full salary, as well as the sum voted by the Assembly , in the country ; and the whole is barely sufficient to support the respectability of the government. Many of the inhabitants are engaged in trade ; but the most extensive merchants having been ruined by their heavy speculations in ships, the present trade of Charlotte Town is confined to the selling of various kinds of British goods, and produce, for money, or, in the way of barter, for agricultural pro¬ duce. The other inhabitants follow various kinds of handicraft, or support themselves by keeping taverns, or dram-shops. When travelling through the settlements, we dis¬ cover the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island to consist of , who, though fewer than any