28 PAST AND PRESENT OF the plan of this town, and have the honor to send that which I have adopted for Your Lordship's approbation. I think it the best calculated for a northern climate of any I have met with, as every house will have a southern aspect; there being but one row of houses on each range; by which means, like¬ wise, there will be a communication from every back-yard into a street, which I look upon as a very great convenience. "I have enlarged the town lots by adding twenty-four feet front and twenty feet in depth each, as they were too small to admit of all the conveniences necessary for a man in business, in a country where snow, in a great measure, prevents our building houses with double (?) roofs. "I do not mean to give to every person who may apply a whole lot, nor to some not more than one-third, according to their abili¬ ties. And, as in the first settling of a town, every man must be something of a farmer, to supply his family with milk, butter, roots and all other vegetables, until there be a market, which we cannot expect will be the case soon, I have doubled the quantity of land in each pasture lot, as will appear by the plan; they were in the original only six acres each; be¬ sides which, there is a large common left for the purpose of extending the town, whenever that is necessaiy. "I think it, upon the whole, the best cal¬ culated plan, both for usefulness and regu¬ larity, I have seen, and shall be highly flat¬ tered if it be approved by Your Lordship." The plan accompanying this despatch gives the area of the whole as 7,300 acres, of which the town embraced 270, and 565 acres were reserved for the common. The roads to St. Peters and Prince Town were thirty feet wide, and those to the pasture lots twenty feet. The roads covered sixty-four acres. The remaining 6401 acres were di¬ vided into pasture lots of twelve acres each. The town lots were eighty-four by one hun¬ dred and twenty feet The five principal streets fronting on the river were to be one hundred feet in breadth, and the others eighty feet. The present sites of the Market House and St. Paul's church were reserved for a church, court house and jail. What is now Dundas Esplanade was reserved for an ordnance yard. The land along the shore, from Prince street to Pownal street, was set apart for store houses and a market place. The square corresponding to our was named , but was farther east than the , faced Queen street, and ran back to Pownal , and lay between Sydney and Dorchester streets. King's Square was called ""; the others bore their present names. Great George street was the only street named on the plan. Considerable changes have since been made in this plan of the town, as well as in the roads leading from it, but that of the seems to be still the same, ex¬ cept in the widening of the roads. Writing again on 18th October, 1771, Patterson reports the loss of Mr. Fergus , one of the Council, who had sailed the previous November in a small vessel from Three Riv¬ ers to Charlottetown . She was lost with all hands, in a snow-storm, on the coast of Nova Scotia . He had been missing until May, when the news of his loss was confirmed, but the Governor had omitted to report the acci¬ dent. In the same letter, he again gives Lord Hillsborough an account of the Island and of its productions as follows: "I promised Your Lordship some fur¬ ther accounts of the Island this autumn, and from everything I have tried, both in hus¬ bandry and in gardening, my expectations