worth the trip to have a view of Charlottetown and the surrounding scenery as well as that in the immediate vicinity.

Rosebank has been celebrated for its natural beauty ever since we first saw it, now upwards of thirty years since, and that beauty has been much heightened since then by judicious management. We were delighted with Glen Stewart, and everything about it. We feel very certain, that a very short time will have to elapse before there will be a considerable number of country villa residences, or rather small ‘fermes ornees’ in the neighbourhood, every hundred or two yards.

We have hitherto abstained from giving our embryo town a distinctive appellation, and this because it seems there is some difference of opinion about what is or is to be its name. The proprietor of the land, and of course the founder of the town or village [Major John P. Beete] has given it the classic appellation of Stratford; those who intend to be, in time, the ‘oldest inhabitants’, have designated it Southport. Now, of these two, we incline to the first. Had Charlottetown been called Northport, we should have willing— ly acquiesced in designating the other Southport, but as it is, we think it an unnecessary distinction, there being no port nor haven near the locality.

We should like to know what the native Indians call the pretty little creek around which they used to be so fond of camping. If at all euphonious, it might be a more appropriate name than either Stratford or

Southport, seeing that it is possessed of neither pool nor port. By what name, however, it may be called, we wish it well, and trust that it is but the nucleus of what it is eminently fitted to be: a neat little town, with an exten- sive suburb of ornamental farms. We do not think—however others may—that it will equal, nay, excel Charlottetown. We would not mention this, except to quiet the apprehensions of some of our more timid townsfolk, who are rather jealous of seeing a rival rising opposite, and are fearful of the consequences.