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ne weather. There are several ponds where boats an be secured such as Nail and Black Ponds, and orth and South Miminegash, but their outlets, rough sandy beaches, are all nearly dry at low ater, and of no use to vessels.

Ofl‘Nail Pond and Nail Head, 6 miles S. W. by . from North Point, the shallow water extends ‘2 riles from the shore. Noting as we pass, Seal oint, Howard Cove, Cape Wolf and Carey Point, e arrive at the place we first started from—the est point of Prince Edward Island, latitude 46° 37’ 9” N., longitude 64° 26’ 16” VV., and thus having aken the circuit of the Island, and briefly noted the eculiarities of each place as we passed, we will ext conduct the reading visitor through the roads fits interior, The blue sky was very lovely when we eached this point or peak, and the gulls were he- porting themselves freely, but the evening shadow ,s new falling, and we must retire before

“ The cloudlets. edged with crimson light Veil o’er the blue serene;

And sea-gulls with their wailing moan, Start up, and turn to seek

Their lonely dwelling place upon This promontory’s pcak.”

POPULATION.

IN 1827, the House of Assembly got up a warm iscussion—so Haszard"s Register of that year in- orms us—on the second reading of a Population ill, the object of which Bill was to ascertain the ‘ regress and Prospects of‘ the Island in regard to the ' umber ofinhabitants, the amount of stock kept, and the quantity ofland cleared. It will hardly be credit- d that such a. necessary estimate as a Province Census could find opponents among the representa—