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     agreeably flank this seat of periodical industry and 
     
     traffic. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Queen Street is the main street, and slopes plea— 
     
     santly to the water’s edge, terminated by a fine 
     
     wharf, and busy with shippers‘ interests. The spirit 
     
     of improvement has here steadily worked and pro- 
     
     duced what in some respects may be called a fine 
     
     street; there is no feeling of confinement in it, and 
     
     from its breadth, position and capabilities, it will 
     
     some day be a very beautiful street; but Prince 
     
     Street, parallel with Queen Street, and separated 
     
     from it by the length of Queen Square, is a pleasanter 
     
     street, and when its freshly planted trees come to 
     
     perfection, it will form a cool and shaded promenade, 
     
     having also a wharf to conduct to the saline waters 
     
     ofthe Hillsborough, and place you where the sum- 
     
     mer breezes may refresh and invigorate, while the 
     
     scenery delights and gratifies. The city is on the 
     
     north bank ofthe river Hillslmrough, nearitsjunction 
     
     with York River, and is finely situate on rising 
     
     ground, commanding beautiful views, as may be 
     
     imagined at the confluence ofthree so called Rivers, 
     
     but more like arms of the sea, viz., the two named 
     
     and the Elliot. Hillsborough Bay, thus formed, is 
     
     not the first in majesty, for the Three Rivers, at 
     
     Georgetown, sheltered by Panmure Island, form a 
     
     harbor probably equal to any in the world, being 
     
     capable of containing. in perfect safety, and by fa- 
     
     cility of approach, the entire navy of Great Britain. 
     
     But if Hillsborough Bay be not the first in natural 
     
     importance, it is not far behind its rival, and from its 
     
     importance as the channel to the seat ofGovernment, 
     
     ought to be considered the greater favourite of the 
     
     two. Charlottetown can boast of many agreeable 
     
     residences, and is not without its “back slums,” 
     
     places wherethe poetical element dominates, and 
     
     places where description would refuse to humble 
     
     itself. Charlottetown has its masses and its classes, 
     
     the usual majority and minority of growing cities. 
     
     Charlottetown is a city with two lives; it has its