-23- wreek on St . Paul's Island, Newfoundland , in 1824. The dwelling house,store, and afterwards foundry, of Tv'aters & Birnie (the foundry was under the management of Mr. Vtm . Hobbs, brother of John Hobbs , a resident of Charlotte Town) was situated on the land later occupied by Judge Reddinl who had a store on and did a considerable ship¬ ping business on this site, where he built a wharf at the foot of his property which afterwards was joined with a wharf built on its :astern side by Andrew Duncan , later to be known as the Steam , Crossing Great we come to "lugs' Corner"• This lot, a hundred years ago, belonged to a Mr. Gainsford. He had a bakery attached. Next to Gainsford 's was the old Longworth House . Then came a house owned by William Batt . Coming to the eor- I ner later occupied by Mr. Morris , there was a house and store occupied by T» B» Tremaine, who did a general business.! He afterwards conducted the Ferry between Charlotte Town and j Southport , adding to its facilities by providing a "team-boat, - a fearfully made concern operated by four horses walki-. around an upright windlass to which was attached a bevel gear., which set the paddles in motion, Opposite Tremaine'3 on the other side of was Peake's corner. The first store built by Peaks 's was the wooden structure later used as Nicholson's tobacco factory, which was moved from its former to its present site to make room for the brick building that succeeded it. This brick house was erected by Mr. Peaks as his dwelling, and was in those days one of the finest houses in Charlotte Town ; next to it was a building owned by a Mr. Coombs . We now come to a famous old landmark, the Rankin House. The first house put up on this Pownal St , corner was a dwelling owned by one Antoine, a Frenchman, who was a sur¬ veyor. It afterwards passed into the possession of Rhaito Webster, being afterwards held by Andrew Duncan , and after that by W. W. Lord , who built a wharf and did quite a large business there. On the other side of , near where Poster's forge later stood, there was an old windmill. Around it were a number of buildings including a well known boarding house kept by a Mrs. Whelan . Next to Mrs. Whelan 's was a house occupied by a Mr. MacLean ; and then the barrack fence blocked all progress further west. PORT GEORGE ; Charlotte Town about the middle of the 19th cen¬ tury was a garrisoned town - or we might call it so, for then we had a company of permanent soldiers, with their