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     CHAPTER VIII. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ” And Herring like a. mighty host, 
     
     And 001) and Mackerel crowd the Coast.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Pope’s Reminiscences of P. E. Island, 1848. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Having given the city of Charlottetown, and the 
     
     bay of her seaboard approaches, the honor of 
     
     initiating the Topographical account, we submit to 
     
     the reader, before proceeding farther, we will take 
     
     a View of the acreage of Prince Edward Island, as 
     
     it appears divided into parishes. The division into 
     
     parishes appears to answer no useful end, but the 
     
     subdivision, into- Townships, popularly known as- 
     
     Lots, is amost important feature, as the numeral 
     
     distinctions, after a single glance at a map of the 
     
     Island, enable a stranger at once to discover any 
     
     desired locality. The parishes are each composed 
     
     of several Townships or Lots, and vary in size, as 
     
     will presently be seen, but the componentLots are 
     
     more uniform in their acreage, generally comprising 
     
     an area of 20,000. The whole area, or acre sur- 
     
     face, exceeds one million three hundred and sixty- 
     
     fiVe thousand, and in figure is not unlike the form of 
     
     a. codfish. In tracing this resemblance, begin at the 
     
     snout or East Point, and trace its open mouth, the 
     
     lower jaw dropping to south, which exposes a cavity 
     
     of half'a dozen bays, in the centre of which George- 
     
     town appears like a tongue that shakes its ever open 
     
     invitations to the fisherman’s efforts and skill. There 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Nora—There is published by Haszard, of Charlottetown; Letts, 
     
     of Cornhill, London; Webb,’of Liverpool, England; Macgregor, of 
     
     Glasgow, Scotland; and Wyllie, of Aberdeen, on a. scale of 2; Eng- 
     
     lish miles to the inch, 3. map of Prince Edward Island, that may be 
     
     relied on. Mr. Henry J. Cundall has corrected it to 1859. As a 
     
     map of reference in connection with the Topographical portion of 
     
     this work, it will be found very useful. Ask for “ Cundcll’s map, 
     
    
   
   
    
     corrected to 1859," to insure the most recent.