__7_ grated red sandstone forming the upper layers imparts a peculiar redness to the soil, a feature which always attracts the attention of strangers. The minerals are unimportant, neither coal. gypsum nor gold being found in any part. In Prince County are to be seen numbers of granite rocks lying in the fields many miles from the shore. These were evidently cast there by the ice in some bye-gone age.

-W‘aa—J.

CLIMATE

RINCE EDWARD ISLAND has been justly termed the “ Garden of British North America.” The summer cli- mate is perfect, and as jacques Cartier described it “of the best temperature which it is possible to see.” In June and July, the country is ,~~ ,

a paradise of bloom, verdure. ’ ’j and foliage. Singularly free from extremes of heat and cold, there are not, as a rule, those sudden changes which one ex- Vii

periences on the main— l land. Its summer

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heat is always temper- ed by the waters of the surrounding Gulf, and from every direct- ion is borne on the breeze the life giving smell of the sea. The winter per 56 is not unpleasant, but the springs, owing to the prevalence of ice along the shores, are often backward. Of such brightness and beauty is the sumtner, however, that it amply compensates for the tedious spring. Navigation general- ly closes towards the end of December, and re-opens about the middle of April. The cold is neither so great in winter, nor the heat so intense in summer, as in the other Provinces of the Dominion, while the Island, sheltered from the Atlantic by the hills of Cape Breton and Newfoundland, is almost entirely free from fogs. The Autumn is a beautiful season.

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