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The following table gives the average summer and yearly temperature, derived from Io years’ observations, at three points in the Island, with the latitude, longitude and height above the sea.—

ii Eilievatim; iilijlesm Temperature

. . Y . l . ‘ S'1A1IOI\ Latitude Longitude ‘ above sea. 1 Summer Year “ ' ° ' ” ‘ feet ° ° Charlottetown 46. I4 63.10 22 38 62.2 40.7 Georgetown 46.11 62.35 100 61.2 40.9 Alberton 46.48 ,64. 2 20 , 61.2 39 2

SCENERY

girt Province is very attractive. The country is picturesque and pleasing, but it is devoid of the romantic boldness which characterizes the north shore of the Gulf. Although generally level, in some parts it is beautifully undulating. To use the oft-quoted yet appropriate lines of the late Hunter Duvar, a gifted Island writer:

. "V EEN from the water, the appearance of this wave-

“A long low line of beach, with crest of trees, With openings of rich verdure, emerald-hired, ’ * * And this fair land is Epaygooyat called, An Isle of golden grain and healthful clime, With vast fish-teeming waters, ocean-walled, The smallest Province of the Maritime.”

The scenery is of pastoral simplicity, and resembles that of England, and the country is thickly dotted with comfortable homesteads. The Island is much indented with bays and lovely arms of the sea, and the peculiar greenness of its fields and tneadows rivals in beauty that of the Emerald Isle itself. Facing the Gulf are fifty miles of white sand dunes, washed by the cool waters of the sea, and forming one of the finest bathing grounds in the world. The average temperature of the water is about 65 degrees.