12 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

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Looking up Queen Street. from The Examiner Office.

clay is still to be seen, the principal thoroughfares are thoroughly macadamized and are carefully kept in good condition. The streets are laid out at right angles, and are from forty to eighty feet wide, many of them being planted with shade trees. The wooden buildings, that, a generation ago composed the business portion of the town, have given place to modern stone and brick establishments, that are fully up-to-date, and able to meet the requirements of the present day. The views given here will show the improvement better than words can describe it.

Charlottetown, being the Capital of the Province, is the seat of the Local Government. The Lieutenant Governor resides here, and here the menbers of the

South Side Qu-:n Square