Waving grain. fragrant clover and tempting orchards are on all sides. Truly the desert has blossomed like the rose. This. however. has been accomplished at the cost of hard labour, manffilly performed, and sccute sufferings bravely endured. PeoPIe,coming from the mild climate of Ireland to the Qigouroue

one of Canada totally ignorant of what was before them, duprovided withvthe 5 furs and woollens necessary to keep out the cold, and inexperienced in the art of farming. which art was to be their sole protection from starvation, were not likely to have had an easy life, yet they conquered their difficulties and pfoppered exceedingly, partly. perhaps by means of the sunny disposition that‘ helps most Irishmen and women to bridge their troubles with a laugh. One old gentleman who went through it all, relates many anecdotes of the trials of these early days, some of them rather comical.

One story tells how on a summer evening two of those early settlers were sorely persecuted by mosquitOes. one of them, worn out with attacks from the small

but sprightly enemy, hid his head under his handkerchief, his companion spying a fire fly and not recognizing its place in the insect world, called out. I'give up Mike, me boy, "its no use for you to be hidin. your head; here's one of the bastes come to look for you, vid a lantern".

How to Irish a settlement came to possess so un—Irish a name is a source of wonder to many; the probability is that the proprietor called it after Fort Augustus in Invernesshire. Fortunately for their Canadian Fort Augustus.

there is not'nuch in a name. and even the ill sounding. Hanoverian ccgnomen has not retarded the progress of the beautiful district, now the home of

prosperity, peace and plenty.