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     longer, and is also open to navigation earlier in the' 
     
     spring. Here is GEORGETOWN, the capital ofKing’s 
     
     County,well placed on the northern shore ofthe har- 
     
     bor, just to the eastward of Gaudin Point. Like 
     
     Charlottetown, the streets are laid off at right angles, 
     
     and in the centre are large Squares, on which stand- 
     
     the English Church, school houses, the jail and an 
     
     unfrequented Market-house. The Main Street, 
     
     which is terminated by a good wharf, would be, if 
     
     planted with trees, an imposing part of the town; 
     
     but there is very little public spirit and good taste, 
     
     arising from a want of unanimity among the inhabi- 
     
     tants. But it is hoped, when Georgetown wakes 
     
     up to her true interests, there will be a more rapid 
     
     developement of her natural resources, and a spirit 
     
     of enterprise will convert its really valuable capabi- 
     
     lities into palpable reasons for an influx ofvisitors and 
     
     sojourners. 
     
    

    
     It would be difficult to say why Georgetown is the 
     
     abode of apathy, with so much incentive to energy 
     
     --why the pleasantest associations cannot mingle 
     
     there with the urbanities oflife—why in such a place, 
     
     where nature has endowed the district with all that 
     
     is picturesque and ennobling, there is so much that 
     
     is commonplace and pettifogging; but time will sur- 
     
     mount all, and Georgetown willyet emerge from her 
     
     hybernation, to bask in a great prosperity. It will 
     
     be difficult indeed to set bounds to the success of 
     
     Georgetown, when her invitations, under the alien 
     
     Act, are responded to, and her resources are made 
     
     manifest in a vigorous future. IIer progress has 
     
     been slow, but her prospects are full ofwell-grouad- 
     
     ed hope. Among her people there are many who 
     
     strive to win improvement, but the obstacles are yet 
     
     mountains in their way, The large squares make it 
     
     a rambling looking town, but by and bye, when the 
     
     rough places are made smooth, and the irregularities 
     
     of action are reduced to rule and order, George- 
     
     town will be resorted to, for her own sake, as well 
     
     as for the pecuniary reasons which so usually pre- 
     
     vail and determine the whereabouts, and whatabouts 
     
     ofa trading community. In 1856 the Imports were