(99') CHAPTER XIX.

JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH'.

“ In this fine Island, long neglected, Much it is thought might be eflected By industry and application;

Sources of wealth with every nation.”

Old Island poem on the new year, 1826.

THAT Prince Edward Island has been long ne- lected, is a position that no argument—can remove. ut the position that it deserves to be so treated, is= ne on which no sane logictan would or-could'rest, ith the slightest chance of success. The whole' achinery of adverse self-interest cannot move, much less crush the surprised convictions of those he have been to see and “sag. out the land” for' hetnselves.. With them seeing is believing, and their elief becomes a pleasing reality, when under their wn eyes the teeming fields and rivers, and surround: ng waters“ make their life manifest and court the nterprise ofman,"in their successive seasons.

There is some difficulty in speaking on the subjects» f'climate, the changes of the seasons, and the al- ernations of heat and cold, when addressmg persons, holly unaccustomed to the sensations thereby pro- uced‘. Not only does one country differ from an- ther in these evidences,but they present great nov- lty of feeling to the unaccustomed, and require to be xperienced to produce a correct impression oftheir arieties. No one for instance who has left THE OLD OUNTRY, and for the first time visited the NEW, eels prepared, however well read uponthe subject, to nd the climate identical with his anticipations, the easons the same as his suppositions, nor the alter- nations of heat and cold regulated by the expectations- aid'down; and this variance of figure and fact, is not applicable only to continents and large districts, it is a matter of observation even within districts, theo~ retically classed under the same description; and perhaps there is no stronger evidence ofthe truth of: