History of Presbyterianism CHAPTER IX. ST. PETERS AND BRACKXEY POINT ROADS. This congregation originally formed a part of St. James' church, Charlottetown . The St. Peters Road church is about six miles, and that of Road about nine miles from Charlottetown . The St. Peters Road section of this congregation lies along the west bank of the Hilleborough river, up which the tide flows about twenty miles. The scenery along its banks is rich and beautiful. Its edges are fringed with marsh grass and a continua¬ tion of fertile and well cultivated farms range along its banks, which are adorned with beautiful groves of beech, birch, maple and fir. The houses are neat and present an air of comfort and taste. The people are intelligent and industrious, all in comfortable circumstances, and some of them amongst the wealthiest farmers in the county. The first settlers in this part of the island came from Perthshire in the year 1775. At this date the only road on the island was through this district, from Charlottetown to Head. Leading to other settlements there was nothing more than what is called a blaze, i . e., a chip taken from the side of a tree, and in some cases the traveller had not even that to guide him. The mode of travel was along the banks of the river and the sea shore; and the number of deep creeks and inlets which abound on Prince Edward Island 70